texinfo-4.7: makeinfo: "bad address"

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

I have the following setup:
binutils-2.14 are extracted somewhere.
I want to rebuild the info files with makeinfo-4.7
in no-split format. So I do for example:

makeinfo  -I/usr/src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld -I/usr/src/gnu/dist/binutils/bfd/doc 
--no-split -o ld.info /usr/src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld/ld.texinfo

This worked with 4.6.

It dies with 4.7 with:
ld.info: Bad address
ld.info: Bad address
makeinfo: Removing output file `ld.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.

I tried replacing makeinfo source files with the ones from cvs,
but that didn't help, so I think the bug is still there in the
latest version.

It seems to me that makeinfo reads the bfd.info file that comes
with the binutils-2.14 distribution (and was created with makeinfo-4.3)
and dies somewhere in the indices it finds there.

When I remove ld.info in the binutils distribution, it works too.
It also works when I remove "--no-split".

However, I'd prefer a solution where I have to do neither of these
due to other constraints.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
 Thomas

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