Re: [Maxima-discuss] Documentation fails with error

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2015-08-29, Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:

> Don't know when this started happening, but I can't get the
> documentation for minpack_lsquares.

Looks like the items in maxima-index.lisp for minpack_lsquares and
minpack_solve are incomplete -- the file name and offset are default
values. The file name and offset are present for the section headings
(Introduction to minpack and Functions and variables for minpack) are
present and I find those do work with ?.

minpack_lsquares and minpack_solve are the only 2 items which have
missing filename and offset -- I wonder what makes them different from
other items. I glanced at doc/info/include-maxima.texi and minpack.texi
but I don't see any problems. The Perl script build_index.pl doesn't
print out any error messages for those items. Probably the problem is
that those items don't match the regexes in the Perl script somehow.

I think those items have been broken for some time now.

best,

Robert Dodier