Re: @menu puts too many restrictions to produce the .info file

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 05:21:05PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:07:04 +0100
> > Sensitivity: Normal
> > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > What gets me most frustrated is that when I introduce @bye
> > somewhere within the document, makeinfo goes nuts.  @bye
> > is a great command to use when texi2pdf is unsuccessful
> > so I may investigate. Makeinfo does not give me that possibility.
> > If I remove the menu but there are references in the document,
> > the info file is not generated.
> 
> Instead of @bye use @ignore..@end ignore.
> 

I think that would still lead to many errors about missing nodes and
so on.

If you used the --force option, it's possible the file would be
generated anyway.  Also, some hard errors about menus were turned
recently into warnings.

Using the -c SHOW_MENU=0 option may get rid of some of the warnings,
at the cost of not outputting the menus.