Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Harry Putnam <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:22:29 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >
> > They did no such thing.  I have CVS Info manual in the old format, and
> > the index there works for me inside Emacs.
> >
> >> If they didn't make that decision, it simply seems like a bug introduced
> >> since 23.1 was released, based on the evidence at hand.
> >
> > Nope, the above works for me in stock Emacs 23.1.
> 
> Eli, if you can, what is the date on your copy of cvs info files.  And
> how many are there?

Exactly like yours:

> For me, with cvs  1.12.12 (client/server), The info files are already
> created in the sources pkg.  They date from 2005 and there are 11 of
> them.

Me too.

> Those files fail on an `i' (index) search with the message `no index'.

Please look in cvs.info, and tell me what does its first line say.

> However the index itself is there in the first page menu and can be
> opened and read.

Can you show here the first few lines of the Index node (it should be
in cvs.info-10), starting from the line before the Node line?

> If I generate the info files manually using the source CVS texi and
> texinfo-4.13 I get 3 files and info search works fine.

The 3 files instead of 11 is because latest versions of makeinfo
enlarged their default split size, so this is normal.  You can control
the split size with the --split-size switch, if you want to try to
re-create 11 files.

The fact that index search works for you in freshly generated files
probably means that the original ones are botched, perhaps due to some
bad version of makeinfo used to produce them.