It seems sys-apps/texinfo is required at runtime to render help. This is on a binary system, and texinfo was skipped because it is not in RDEPEND. Installing texinfo makes help work again. Reproducible: Always
Which help fails to render? In other words, if I delete texinfo from my system, how can I reproduce the problem?
I think any [help <cmd>] will fail. For me I get the following with texinfo removed octave:1> help ls sh: makeinfo: command not found warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally; raw Texinfo source of help text follows... and so on for any [help <cmd>] I tried.
Yup, sure enough... Thanks for the info, I'll have it fixed in a second.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=944d865582a419b31183f4408a8895f45b7e6607 commit 944d865582a419b31183f4408a8895f45b7e6607 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-12-01 16:10:55 +0000 Commit: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-12-01 16:14:36 +0000 sci-mathematics/octave: new revision with sys-apps/texinfo in RDEPEND. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/743019 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.9, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> .../octave/{octave-6.1.0.ebuild => octave-6.1.0-r1.ebuild} | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
