Re: difficulties when building from svn, segfault, backtrace

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
> With current SVN, doing 'info/ginfo doc/info.info' seems to work.
> Seems, because when I add some words to that doc/info.info file,
> they don't show.  Those words do show when I add the --file option.
> So the bare 'info/ginfo doc/info.info' shows me the system's info file.
>
> Doing a strace on both invocations shows that both find and open
> the correct file, but then the call without --file goes on anyway to
> search for info.info all over the place.  :|
>

It works for me in current SVN: could you make sure you are running
the most recent version and try again? For comparison, I get:

$ info/ginfo -x3 doc/info.info
info: INFOPATH=doc
info: 
INFOPATH=doc:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/share/texmf/info:/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/local/lib/info:/usr/lib/info:/usr/local/gnu/info:/usr/local/gnu/lib/info:/usr/gnu/info:/usr/gnu/lib/info:/opt/gnu/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/share/lib/info:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/local/share/lib/info:/usr/gnu/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/emacs/info:.
info: looking for file "doc/info.info"
info: found file doc/info.info

In infodebug:

info: looking for file "info.info"
info: INFOPATH compacted:
doc:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/share/texmf/info:/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/local/lib/info:/usr/lib/info:/usr/local/gnu/info:/usr/local/gnu/lib/info:/usr/gnu/info:/usr/gnu/lib/info:/opt/gnu/info:/usr/share/lib/info:/usr/local/share/lib/info:/usr/gnu/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/lib/emacs/info:/usr/local/emacs/info:.
info: looking for file info.info in doc
info: found file doc/info.info

It's the same with --file for me.

> When calling up the index (or doing 'info/ginfo --file doc/info.info index'),
> tabbing through it behaves strange.  The cursor sits some way into the
> lines, and when pressing Enter it jumps to the item that is three lines
> further down.  If you don't see that, then mine is really miscompiled.
>

This was a bug and I have fixed it.

>
> $ info/ginfo -x3 doc/info.info index

This works for me as well, and brings up the index.