Re: since 4.12 'info gettext' opens libc.info

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:33:34 +0300
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Since texinfo-4.12 'info gettext' no longer opens the main page of 
> > gettext.info for me, but opens libc.info instead, on the node 
> > 'Translation with gettext', "8.2.1.1 What has to be done to 
> > translate a message?"  Is this a bug in my system, or in texinfo?
> 
> Seems like a bug on your system. I cannot reproduce it.

My crystal ball says that it has something to do with how Benno's DIR
file(s) look.  Perhaps there's some `gettext' menu item that catches
Info's attention before it tries `gettext.info' the file.  Don't
forget that originally, you needed to say "info -f gettext" to tell
Info that you mean a file, not a DIR menu item.  The fact that it
looks for a file without a -f now is a heuristic, and it could misfire
given DIR specifics.

> > ('info tar' has always opened on the node 'tar invocation' -- is 
> > that intentional?)
> 
> Yes, `info tar' shows invocation summary for the tar utility, while
> `info Tar' opens the documentation for the GNU tar package. The same
> holds true for automake, autoconf, etc.

Again, this is because of DIR menu items, right?