Re: problem using install-info with tar.info

[Gavin Smith]

On 30 October 2015 at 22:41, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed testing and report. I tried downloading the
> info file and running install-info and it worked fine for me.
>
> When I ran it through valgrind, I got the following:
>
> =19388== Warning: invalid file descriptor -1 in syscall close()
> ==19388== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==19388==    at 0x804C925: add_missing_basenames (install-info.c:1686)
> ==19388==    by 0x407C7A2: (below main) (in /lib/libc-2.17.so)
>
> That's two errors, maybe one of them is responsible?

So I've fixed those two warnings. But my guess is that the error is
due to the following line

* Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.

The node name is missing (after the closing parenthesis), which is
allowed, although less common. That's my best guess, anyway.

I don't know if you have any way of testing the code in the SVN repository?