Bug in describe?



Oh yes, Rupert. That's the cause of the problem. I have built version 
5.31.3 in two machines with different
versions of Ubuntu and it works fine in the one that has texinfo 4 but 
fails in the one with texinfo 5

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PC 1 (correct)
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$ dpkg -l texinfo
ii  texinfo        4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Documentation system for on-line 
information

$maxima
Maxima 5.31.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp SBCL 1.0.29.11.debian
(%i1) ? matrix

  -- Function: matrix (<row_1>, ..., <row_n>)
      Returns a rectangular matrix ...

PC 2 (incorrect)
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$ dpkg -l texinfo
ii  texinfo        5.1.dfsg.1-4 amd64        Documentation system for 
on-line
$ maxima
Maxima 5.31.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp SBCL 1.1.1.0.debian
(%i1) ? matrix

  -- Option variable: lmxchar
      Default value: '['

      'lmxchar' is the character displayed ...
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(both PC's have amd64 architecture)

Regards,
Jaime

On 03-12-2013 20:13, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
>>      Jaime> I see that the info files are built in the making process and the
>>      Jaime> files in /usr/local/share/info/ have just been created but the info is
>>      Jaime> still wrong.
>>
>> Hmm. I rarely ever install maxima, but I did just now and it still
>> works fine for me with cmucl, clisp, and ccl.
>>
>> I think at this point, we have to figure out exactly what file it's
>> loading and work back from there to figure out why the index is wrong.
> I decided to stop thinking about this a while ago, but... Is it possible
> that you see this with texinfo 5 and other people are using texinfo 4?
>
> Rupert
>