Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Trying to build texinfo from SVN (wanting to see how things
> stand with the h-H issue), I run into some difficulties.
>

Hi, you seem to have a few issues. I will comment on the info browser
issues because I've made a few changes there recently.

> In file included from info-utils.h:26,
>                  from display.h:25,
>                  from info.h:39,
>                  from makedoc.c:27:
> window.h:84: error: redefinition of typedef ‘WINDOW’
> nodes.h:171: note: previous declaration of ‘WINDOW’ was here
>
> But judging from the comments, that should work.

Yes, it compiled for me so wasn't aware of any problems. It could be
that I never got the two header nodes.h and window.h included at once
so never had the conflicting typedef declarations.

> $ info/ginfo doc/info.info
> Welcome to Info version 5.2. Type h for help, m for menu item.Segmentation 
> fault
>
> Wow.
>
> The doc/info.info seems to be fine, though, I can read it okay with the
> system's own info command.  And starting info/ginfo with other arguments
> (grep, sed, find) or without any argument works fine too.  So, what's up
> with this segfault?
>

I'll look into it. (Note you should really do "info/ginfo --file
./doc/info.info" instead to open a file with that path.)

> Okay, I find the system's info.info file, compare it with the one in doc/
> -- the new just has the whole license text included and a few minor
> changes.  Okay, copy the old one to doc/what.info and run:
>
> $ info/ginfo doc/what.info
>
> It does not segfault but the screen is blank and the status line says:
> Info: (*no file*)*no node*, 0 lines --All
>

I'll look into this as well.

PS the required version of automake might be 1.14 for a good reason.