Re: problem using install-info with tar.info

[Gavin Smith]

On 30 October 2015 at 23:11, 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").

You're right. Maybe it's the other line that causes the problem then?

>
> 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.

Problem is, the tests have to fail. When I did what Alan did it didn't fail.

FWIW I hooked valgrind into the test suite and ran make check again,
but got no further errors (except for memory leaks).