Re: Making makeinfo --no-split the default?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> However, now that I'm writing this, we could achieve the same effect by
>> increasing the default split-size from 50,000.  I think I'll do that for
>> the next release.
> Cool; nice "trick". ;-)

Hmm, I just noticed that using makeinfo --split-size=5000000 when building
the GCC manuals has the following effect:

  % ls -l $GCC_SOURCE/gcc/doc/*info* | cut -c31-
     3244 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/cpp.info
   208620 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/cpp.info-1
    49804 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/cppinternals.info
     7558 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gcc.info
  1098664 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gcc.info-1
     2621 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gccinstall.info
   164339 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gccinstall.info-1
     6709 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gccint.info
  1163857 Apr 15 18:15 /sw/test/gcc/cvs/gcc/doc/gccint.info-1

I tried both with makeinfo 4.2 and 4.5, and both behaved the same, while
I would have expected makeinfo only to generate a single .info file in
this case, as it does with makeinfo --no-split.

Did I miss something obvious here (absolutely likely), is this a feature,
or is it a bug?

Gerald
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