GNU bug report logs - #8071
Please rename automake invocation node

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Message #10 received at 8071 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 8071 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, automake-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8071: Please rename automake invocation node
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:34:04 +0100

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tags 8071 patch
close 8071
thanks

Hi Reuben, sorry for the ludicrous delay.

On 02/18/2011 12:04 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> This is actually a bug that affects several autotools packages,
> excluding autoconf, for which it's already fixed: the invocation node
> is added to the info dir as "automake" which means that
> 
> info automake
> 
> goes to the invocation node, not the Top node.
>
I agree that this is suboptimal and confusing.

The attached patch, applied to maint, fixes the issue.  I'm thus closing
this bug report.

> autoconf calls its invocation node autoconf-invocation instead.
> 
> While on this subject; all the other autotools entitle their
> invocation nodes "autofoo Invocation", whereas automake calls its
> "Invoking Automake".
> 
I haven't changed this, because that could break existing third-party links
to our HTML documentation (OK, that could probably be fixed with an update
to the .symlinks file in the CVS repository of the Automake web pages, but
IMHO it's not worth the hassle).

Thanks,
  Stefano

[0001-docs-fix-node-names-for-automake-and-aclocal-invocat.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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