Re: install-info --remove Leaves "dir" Unmodified

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 4:16 AM, Paul Hardy <address@hidden> wrote:
> I looked at message subjects on this list from the past two years but
> this does not seem to have been reported before.
>
> After successfully installing a Texinfo page in /usr/local/share/info
> with install-info, with the "dir" info directory file in that
> directory correctly updated, an "install-info --remove" command fails.
> The info file is removed but the "dir" file is not updated to remove
> that selection.

(install-info should not be deleting any info files - other Makefile
rules will be doing this.)

I tried testing install-info --remove and it worked fine for me. E.g.

$ cat /home/g/local/share/info/dir
This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the
topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top.
The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node.

File: dir,      Node: Top       This is the top of the INFO tree

  This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
  Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here,
  "h" gives a primer for first-timers,
  "mEmacs<Return>" visits the Emacs manual, etc.

  In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference
  to select it.

* Menu:

Individual utilities
* aclocal-invocation: (automake)aclocal Invocation.
                                                Generating aclocal.m4.
* automake-invocation: (automake)automake Invocation.
                                                Generating Makefile.in.

Software development
* Automake: (automake).         Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.

Texinfo documentation system
* Texinfo: (texinfo).           The GNU documentation format.
* info stand-alone: (info-stnd).
                                Read Info documents without Emacs.
* install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info.
                                Update info/dir entries.
* makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking makeinfo.
                                Translate Texinfo source.
* pdftexi2dvi: (texinfo)PDF Output.
                                PDF output for Texinfo.
* pod2texi: (pod2texi)Invoking pod2texi.
                                Translate Perl POD to Texinfo.
* texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi.
                                Print Texinfo documents.
* texi2pdf: (texinfo)PDF Output.
                                PDF output for Texinfo.
* texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex.
                                Sort Texinfo index files.


$  install-info --info-dir=/home/g/local/share/info --remove doc/info-stnd.info
$ cat /home/g/local/share/info/dir
This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the
topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top.
The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node.

File: dir,      Node: Top       This is the top of the INFO tree

  This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
  Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here,
  "h" gives a primer for first-timers,
  "mEmacs<Return>" visits the Emacs manual, etc.

  In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference
  to select it.

* Menu:

Individual utilities
* aclocal-invocation: (automake)aclocal Invocation.
                                                Generating aclocal.m4.
* automake-invocation: (automake)automake Invocation.
                                                Generating Makefile.in.

Software development
* Automake: (automake).         Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.

Texinfo documentation system
* Texinfo: (texinfo).           The GNU documentation format.
* install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info.
                                Update info/dir entries.
* makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking makeinfo.
                                Translate Texinfo source.
* pdftexi2dvi: (texinfo)PDF Output.
                                PDF output for Texinfo.
* pod2texi: (pod2texi)Invoking pod2texi.
                                Translate Perl POD to Texinfo.
* texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi.
                                Print Texinfo documents.
* texi2pdf: (texinfo)PDF Output.
                                PDF output for Texinfo.
* texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex.
                                Sort Texinfo index files.


The "info-stnd" entry has been removed as it should have.

> The relevant "make uninstall" command that automake 1.16.1 generates
> and runs is:
>
>      install-info --info-dir='/usr/local/share/info' --remove
> '/usr/local/share/info/my-prog.info'

Maybe there is something wrong with the Info file, e.g. there isn't a
section START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY inside the Info file. Have you had this
problem with several Info files or just one?