Re: problem using install-info with tar.info

[Gavin Smith]

On 31 October 2015 at 15:59, Alan Wehmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I attach a tar archive containing "test-suite.log".  This is from the 
> sequence ./configure, make, make check in the texinfo-5.2 distribution that I 
> downloaded.

Okay thanks. There's a good chance that these two failures aren't
related to failure you originally reported. I see they both used
compressed input files, which are likely failing for a different
reason. If that's the case then we should have another test that
causes this failure, assuming that we can find out what it is.

Here's something to try: After running

install-info --debug tar.info dir

the first time, and dir is created without the correct entries in it, try

install-info --debug tar.info dir

again. That would show if the fact that dir didn't already exist was relevant.

Also, you could try deleting one of the dir entries in the tar.info
file to see if it still breaks. That would indicate if one of them was
a problem.