[ANNOUNCEMENT] texinfo 6.8

[Ken Brown]

On 7/6/2021 7:59 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 05/07/2021 19:04, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>
>> * texinfo-6.8-1
>> * texinfo-tex-6.8-1
>> * info-6.8-1
>>
>> Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce 
>> output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, 
>> xml, etc.).
>>
>> This is an update to the latest upstream release.  See
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Thanks for this update.
> 
> This seems to break building the cygwin documentation:
> 
>  > [...]
>> docbook2x-texi --xinclude --info --utf8trans-map=charmap 
>> ../../../../src/winsup/doc/cygwin-api.xml --string-param output-file=cygwin-api
>> could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.32/XML/SAX
>> could not open -: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/db2x_texixml: program in pipeline exited with an error
>> make: *** [Makefile:729: cygwin-api.info] Error 1
> 
> Poking around a bit, under the hood this is invoking makeinfo, and it seems that 
> can't read from a pipeline anymore:
> 
>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>> could not open -: No such file or directory
> 
> Downgrading to 6.7, I can build again, and:
> 
>> $ echo foo | makeinfo
>> -: warning: document without nodes
> 
> Is this an intentional upstream change?

No.

I've applied the upstream fix and am waiting for scallywag to build and deploy 
texinfo-6.8-2.  (It seems to be taking forever.)

My local test indicates that this fixes the problem, but I'd appreciate it if 
you would confirm that before I "untest" the new release.

Thanks.

Ken