Re: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl!

On Son, 29 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>     234848    info ./jdfsdofs starts with man page of top, instead of the Top 
> node
>     
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     If you supply a filename on the cmdline which does not exists, then the
>     man page of top is shown, instead of showing the Top node in dir.
> 
>     Maybe this can be handled also via error handling in the spirit of the 
>     stuff said in the previous bug report!
> 
> It seems someone (maybe me :) actually fixed this at one point, and I
> forgot about it.  When I run info ./foobar now, I get the dir node and a
> message "no item ./foobar" in menu.
> 
> This is in CVS, post-4.8.

Strange. 3min ago I did:
$ cvs update 
$ ./bootstrap
...
$ ./configure CFLAGS=-g --enable-maintainer-mode
...
$ make
...
$ info/ginfo --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.8

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  You may redistribute copies of GNU texinfo
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
$ info/ginfo ./notexistingfile

and I landed at the manpage of top

What is wrong here???

Best wishes

Norbert

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