a2ps install from source fails now due text syntax errors

[kwolcott]

Excerpt from install log:

a2ps.texi:47: warning: redefining Texinfo language command: @LaTeX
a2ps.texi:422: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:420: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:435: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:521: @uref missing closing brace (possibly involving @href)
a2ps.texi:2800: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:4122: misplaced }
a2ps.texi:5669: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5677: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:5871: @end example seen before @var closing brace
a2ps.texi:5876: @var missing closing brace
a2ps.texi:6219: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6348: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace
a2ps.texi:6588: @end quotation seen before @i closing brace

[kencu (Ken)]

see #47881 for the original ticket about this.

[kwolcott]

What do I need to do on my end? I just run selfupdate again and clean and install from source and get the same errors.

[kencu (Ken)]

it's broken.

someone will need to fix it.

there's nothing you can do at present.

[kencu (Ken)]

Oh, one thing you can do is disable the texinfo port.

Then all will be well -- you can re-enable it after you build this.

[kwolcott]

That worked :-)

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

As I mentioned in #66916, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem noted in #47881. I built a2ps successfully with the texinfo port active. The situation must be a little more complicated.