Re: wrong direntries from makeinfo 4.11

[Norbert Preining]

reopen 451268
thanks

Hi Karl,

you remember that for sure ...

On Mi, 19 Dez 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
> you remember
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2007-10/msg00020.html
> where the
>       This is foobar, produced by ...
> ended up in the START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY?

[...]

I sent a "trial fix" ...

> --- texinfo-4.11.dfsg.1.orig/makeinfo/insertion.c     2007-12-19 
> 16:19:35.000000000 +0100
> +++ texinfo-4.11.dfsg.1/makeinfo/insertion.c  2007-12-19 16:19:41.000000000 
> +0100
> @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
>        close_single_paragraph ();
>        filling_enabled = no_indent = 0;
>        inhibit_paragraph_indentation = 1;
> -      insert_string ("START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY\n");
> +      add_word ("START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY\n");
>        break;
>  
>      case documentdescription:

which you installed.

But it seems something else is broken:

On Di, 25 Dez 2007, Sven Joachim wrote:
[ again problems with install-info ]


Not working version, created with makeinfo including the fix from above:

> This is the header of /usr/share/info/zsh.info.gz:
> 
> ,----
> | This is zsh.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from tzsh.texi.
> | 
> | INFO-DIR-SECTION Utilities
> | START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> |      * ZSH: (zsh).                     The Z Shell Manual.
> | END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> `----

Working entry created with the old version of makeinfo 4.11 without the
fix:
> 
> And here is the header of /usr/share/info/zsh.info.gz in the working
> 4.3.4-dev-6-1 version:
> 
> ,----
> | This is zsh.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from tzsh.texi.
> | 
> | INFO-DIR-SECTION Utilities
> | START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> | * ZSH: (zsh).                     The Z Shell Manual.
> | END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> `----

I cannot check now for the format of these START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY but
could it be that the additional spaces at the beginning are wrong?

Strange enough I cannot see anything in the above fix which might cause
this problem. Do you have any idea?

Best wishes

Norbert

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