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texinfo: @setfilename is not mandatory

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Дилян Палаузов
 <dilyan.palauzov <at> aegee.org>
Subject: bug#36921: closed (Re: bug#36921: bug#34201: [PATCH] automake: do
 not require @setfilename in Texinfo files)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:47:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#36921: texinfo: @setfilename is not mandatory

which was filed against the automake package, has been closed.

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 36921-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36921: bug#34201: [PATCH] automake: do not require
 @setfilename in Texinfo files
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:45:53 -0700

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From: Дилян Палаузов
 <dilyan.palauzov <at> aegee.org>
To: automake-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: texinfo: @setfilename is not mandatory
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:22:34 +0000

Hello,

I have a .texi file and in Makefile.am:

info_TEXINFOS = doc/z.texi

Running autoreconf -visf emits:

configure.ac:13: installing './compile'
configure.ac:7: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
Makefile.am: error: './doc/z.texi' missing @setfilename
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

I have texinfo (or rather makeinfo) 6.6 and automake 1.16.1 (most likely installed from most recent git).

The texinfo manual says in node @setfilename:

“   When a '@setfilename' line is present, the Texinfo processors ignore
everything written before the '@setfilename' line.  This is why the very
first line of the file (the '\input' line) does not show up in the
output.

. . .
   '@setfilename' used to be required by the Texinfo processors, and
some other programs may still expect it to be present; for example,
Automake (*note (automake)Texinfo::).”

Please adjust automake to come forward, when @setfilename is missing, implying the default value.

Regards
  Dilyan

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