Re: problem using install-info with tar.info

[Alan Wehmann]

No, I didn’t run “make check”.  I didn’t have to build/make anything.  Program “install-info” I got from the macports distribution (https://www.macports.org/, in the texinfo 6.0 port).

The tar-1.28.tar.bz2 download provided “tar.info, tar.info-1, tar.info-2, tar.info-3”.

I also have install-info on my system from the Homebrew distribution (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew, texinfo 5.2).  The same error occurs with that install-info:

 /usr/local/Cellar/texinfo/5.2/bin/install-info --debug tar.info dir

debug: reading dir file dir

debug: reading input file tar.info

Abort trap: 6

Alan Wehmann
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On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:

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

   The node name is missing (after the closing parenthesis), which is
   allowed, although less common.

Hmm.  It's standard practice for dir file entries, as far as I can see
(not counting "Individual utilities").

Maybe the second set of parens causes the error, although I see that
coreutils, gzip, bison, and others also have that, so probably not.  E.g.,
* Coreutils: (coreutils).       Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities.

The other weird thing is that i-i has extensive tests.  I'm surprised
the problem was not found there.  If it wasn't, another test should be
added.

Alan, did you run make check?

k