Re: Info reader fails to follow xrefs to anchors

[Ludovic Courtès]

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 13 July 2015 at 15:24, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The standalone Info reader in Texinfo 6.0 fails to follow
>> cross-references to anchors: Following such a link leads to an unrelated
>> place in the document.  This is a regression compared to Texinfo 5.2
>> (guix.texi is one example that illustrates the bug.)
>
> I tried this with the guix.info I have installed, which is for Guix
> 0.8. I couldn't find any cross-references to anchors in the file.
> GoIng to an anchor with "gIntroduction-Footnote-1" goes to the right
> place. Could you send me the file that has the problem and tell me
> whereabouts in it is the cross-reference that doesn't work?

File attached.  As an example: Go to “Substitutes” and try to follow the
anchors ‘daemon-substitute-urls’ and ‘client-substitute-urls’ (see
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi#n1439>.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

guix-info.tgz
Description: the info files