Bug 22168 – bash info pages contain bad references

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Kelso 2003-06-03 12:37:48 UTC]

When attempting to view the info pages in bash in Gnome Help going to any sub
section gives an error.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Gnome Help
2.Select Info Pages under Additional Documents
3.Select Bash
4.Select ANY sub section

Actual Results:  
Receveive error message "The info document "bashref" could not be found.  It may
have been removed from your system.

Expected Results:  
The info page for the subsection.

using command line tool "info" works correctly.

[Comment 1 Chris Kelso 2003-06-03 13:33:19 UTC]

KDE help correctly shows info page.

[Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-06-03 16:33:07 UTC]

hmm .. seems like a problem with the info page more than gnome-help

if you do : ln -s /usr/share/info/bash.info.gz /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz 

then the references will be correct. 

internally, the bash manpage is refering to bashref, yet itself is named bash.info.gz.

[Comment 3 Chris Kelso 2003-06-04 07:59:20 UTC]

That workaround works...

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-06-12 05:40:23 UTC]

Yup seems like it is the bash info file that is faulty. bug-wranglers, please reassign to bash maintainer or do whatever you like with it ;)

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-06-15 18:27:58 UTC]

bash-2.05b-r5.ebuild has this.

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-04-22 11:21:48 UTC]

*** Bug 23939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***