Re: invalid node names in Autoconf manual

[Dave Love]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Urk.  Thanks for reporting this.  I wonder why 'makeinfo' doesn't
> warn about these node names by default?

Good question, if it doesn't.  I haven't tried a build of the current
source.

> Also, do you know whether @direntry also prohibits "." in its
> menu entries?  Currently Autoconf has this:
>
>    @dircategory Individual utilities
>    @direntry
>    * autoscan: (autoconf)autoscan Invocation.
>                                    Semi-automatic @file{configure.ac} writing
>    * ifnames: (autoconf)ifnames Invocation.        Listing conditionals in 
> source.
>    ...
>    * config.status: (autoconf)Recreating a Configuration. Recreating 
> configurations.
>    * testsuite: (autoconf)testsuite Invocation.    Running an Autotest test 
> suite.
>    @end direntry

I don't know, but that at least seems OK for Emacs info mode.  Sorry,
I missed out the info that the thing I noticed didn't work was index
entries where the node name contained the dot.