Re: Bug#457741: wrong direntries from makeinfo 4.11

[Clint Adams]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 12:17:48PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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?

Can you explain what's incorrect about the leading spaces?

--- orig/Doc/ztexi.yo
+++ mod/Doc/ztexi.yo
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
   NOTRANS(@ifinfo)+NL()\
   NOTRANS(@dircategory Utilities)+NL()\
   NOTRANS(@direntry)+NL()\
-  NOTRANS(     * ZSH: (zsh).                     The Z Shell Manual.)+NL()\
+  NOTRANS(* ZSH: (zsh).                     The Z Shell Manual.)+NL()\
   NOTRANS(@end direntry)+NL()\
   NOTRANS(@end ifinfo)+NL()\
 )


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