Bug 198545 - sys-apps/texinfo-4.11 produces bad Info files
Bug#: 198545 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: x86
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: base-system@gentoo.org Reported By: ulm@gentoo.org
Component: Core system
URL: 
Summary: sys-apps/texinfo-4.11 produces bad Info files
Keywords:  REGRESSION
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-11-09 10:37 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-11-09 10:37 0000
texinfo-4.11 mangles the directory entries of Info files. For example, vm.info
(from app-emacs/vm-8.0.5.504) now starts as follows:

| INFO-DIR-SECTION Emacs
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| This is vm.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from vm.texinfo.
|
| * VM: (vm).                             A mail reader.
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
|    This file documents the VM mail reader.

while with texinfo-4.8-r5 it was:

| This is vm.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from vm.texinfo.
|
| INFO-DIR-SECTION Emacs
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| * VM: (vm).                             A mail reader.
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
|    This file documents the VM mail reader.

install-info then includes it in the "dir" file, and info will finally display
the following:

* VM: (vm).                             A mail reader.
This is vm.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from vm.texinfo.

------- Comment #1 From Ulrich Müller 2007-11-09 10:53:01 0000 -------
Created an attachment (id=135561) [details]
Patch for makeinfo/cmds.c from upstream CVS

This should fix it.

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2007-11-12 07:25:23 0000 -------
thanks, added to 4.11-r1