GNU bug report logs - #11999
24.1.50; New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 11999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#11999: 24.1.50;
	New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:03:55 -0700

> > This is the problem - there is no such file:
> >   info-file-exists-p("c:/Emacs-24-2012-07-16/info/emacs")
> 
> Thus info-file-exists-p correctly returns nil.  What is the problem?

This Emacs code still expects the Emacs Info file to have no suffix - it does
not look for a file named with a suffix.

But Emacs Dev has changed the file names now so that they do have a suffix.
Emacs thus cannot find the Info files that Emacs Dev provides.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 316 days ago.

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