GNU bug report logs - #1550
23.0.60; bad help xref or bad info installation?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:40:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 1550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1550: 23.0.60; bad help xref or bad info installation?
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:49:57 +0100

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> I have no idea what's going on here, but it may be related to something
> else I recently noticed.  My installed dir file in /usr/local/share/info
> contains lots of lines like the following scattered throughout the file
> (these lines are not in the dir file in the Emacs source directory):
>
> This is ../../info/eintr, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from emacs-lisp-intro.texi.
>
> This is ../../info/sasl, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from sasl.texi.
>
> This is ../../info/remember, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from remember.texi.

Bug in makeinfo, fixed in 4.12.

Andreas.

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