Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:45:07AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On 29 June 2015 at 21:08, Chris Lamb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > (Replying quickly, apologies for terseness..)
> >
> >> Do you have a list of manuals that exhibit this issue, and an
> >> explanation on how this can be triggered?
> >
> > https://reproducible.debian.net/dbd/unstable/amd64/mmm-mode_0.5.2-2.debbindiff.html
> >
> > or via http://mmm-mode.sourceforge.net/
> 
> A simple input file with the problem with the output mentioned is at
> the bottom of the email.
> 
> In this output, and in the output at the debian link, the two index
> entries are distinguished with an added " <1>". The only problem is
> that the " <1>" is not consistently added to the same index entry.
> 
> $ cat doubleindex.texi
> @syncodeindex vr fn

My feeling was probably right, it is because of indices merge that the
current code does not work.

If nobody else beat me at it, I'll try to propose something at the end
of the week.

-- 
Pat