Re: (fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Gavin Smith]

On 15 July 2015 at 00:23, Norbert Preining <address@hidden> wrote:
> down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that
> info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems:
> In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory:
>         /usr/share/info/emacs-24/emacs.info.gz
>
> The respective dir entry looks like
>         * Emacs: (emacs-24/emacs).      The extensible self-documenting text 
> editor.
> but trying to enter into that node gives:
>         emacs-24/emacs: No such file or directory

Here's my attempt at making this work, which internally prefixes file
paths with "./" when they truly are relative to the current directory
and should not be looked up in the search path.

Hopefully this applies without much trouble to Texinfo 6.0. It would
be great if people would test this patch and post if it works, then we
should be able to amend this patch if necessary and get an acceptable
fix.