Re: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

[Norbert Preining]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>     $ info/ginfo ./notexistingfile
> 
>     and I landed at the manpage of top
> 
>     What is wrong here???
> 
> Sorry, I can't explain it.  I do get the "No menu item" error, with
> precisely your invocation.  Comes from line 2551 in session.c, I guess
> Maybe it's related to the dir file contents somehow (although I can't
> quite imagine)?  I'll attach mine.

I tried with your dir file and got the same. Now its getting strange,
very strange.

> Failing that, maybe run under the debugger and see what happens;
> actually, I guess we'd have to do it simultaneously and see where they
> diverge.  Yikes.

Ugg, still I didn't manage to understand how to run the info under gdb,
I will again read what you wrote me.

Best wishes

Norbert

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