[gpm]gpm-1.19.6 compile-time-err.

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello Martin !



> Hi there!
>
> I just tried compiling gpm, but got the following err:
>
> if [ -n "Ls gpm.?? gpm.aux 2>/dev/null" ]; then \
>         for i in Ls gpm.?? gpm.aux 2>/dev/null; do cp $i $i~; done; \
>         tex gpm.texinfo \
>         old="Ls gpm.??~ gpm.aux~ 2>/dev/null | sed 's/~//g'"; \
>         new="Ls gpm.?? gpm.aux 2>/dev/null"; \
>         need="n"; \
>         if test "$old" != "$new"; then need="y"; \
>         else \
>           for i in  Ls gpm.?? gpm.aux 2>/dev/null; do \
>             cmp -s $i $i~; if test $? -ne 0; then need="y" break; fi; \
>           done; \
>         fi; \
>         if test "$need" = "y"; then \
>           texindex gpm.?? && tex gpm.texinfo; \
>         fi; \
> fi
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (gpm.texinfo (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 1999-09-25.10]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns,
> macros,
> cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
> and turning on texinfo input format.)
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <argument> by Nico Schottelius <nico@schottelius
>                                                  .org>
> @leftline #1->@line {#1
>                        @hss }
> @next ...uthortrue @fi {@authorfont @leftline {#1}
>                                                   }
> l.89 ...by Nico Schottelius <nico@schottelius.org>
>
> ?
>
> Any ideas of what I should do?

It's a typo:

Change the line in doc.gpm.in
@author by Nico Schottelius <nico@schottelius.org>
to
@author by Nico Schottelius <nico@@schottelius.org>


Nico

// another bug in the wall - think floyd