Re: [Maxima-discuss] Help paths (was: Re: Maxima help can use browser now)

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:50 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 3:21 PM Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I tried to test out the nightly build to see if this works.
> >
> > I can't tell.  Help is just broken.  Even in a terminal, "? sin" says no
> help available.
> >
> > I also looked at one of the html files.  It says it was converted using
> makeinfo 6.7.  We now require at least 6.8 to support how we do @math and
> m4_math.
>
> I just tried the current version from Git (c1da79b) and did
>
> $ pushd doc/info && make clean &&  popd
>
> and then
>
> $ git pull origin master
> $ make
>
> The describe system isn't working, as mentioned. I see that
> doc/info/maxima-index.lisp contains an empty table. Not sure what went
> wrong, or when was the last time it was working.
>

Weird,  I ran everything this morning and maxima-index.lisp isn't empty.
Neither is maxima-index-html.lisp, and no more #2A stuff.

Since I don't have problems, I can't really do a git bisect to find out
what happened.

>
> About the HTML docs, I get the error:
>
> makeinfo: warning: set_from_cmdline: unknown variable HTML_MATH
>
> Is there a way to set a default value for that?
>

That's probably because you're not using makeinfo 6.8.  I get warnings
about the unknown variable INLINE_CONTENTS.  Probably because that went
away in 6.8.  At least it's not documented anymore in the latest texinfo
manual.

>
> About the makeinfo version, it seems like that should be enforced by
> ./configure (unless --enable-build-docs=no).
>

Yeah, I thought about it, but I didn't know how to get that enforced.  At
least not without hacks on pattern matching the output from makeinfo
--version.

>
> best,
>
> Robert
>


-- 
Ray