Re: Bug#143536: autoconf: info documentation broken

[Ben Pfaff]

Hi.  I'm the maintainer for the Debian GNU/Linux package of
Autoconf.  It looks like the Texinfo manual for Autoconf 2.53 has
a node name with a `.' in it.  That's not okay, as the Texinfo
manual says in section "address@hidden' Line Requirements":

   * Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or
     apostrophes within a node name; these confuse TeX or the Info
     formatters.

Emacs does okay with them, but they confuse the standalone Info
viewer.  Brian: for now, perhaps you should try using the Info
mode inside Emacs.

Here is the bug report as originally given to me:

Brian May <address@hidden> writes:

> Package: autoconf
> Version: 2.53-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I got this error:
> 
> configure.in:652: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see 
> section `AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'
> 
> 
> However, if I attempt to view that section in the info documentation
> (eg. from table of contents), I get an error like:
> 
> Cannot find node `(/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz)AC_LIBOBJ vs'.
> 
> I have also tried going to the Hosts and Cross-Compilation, and
> pushing N to go to the next node, but it still doesn't work.
> 
> Or:
> 
> Goto node: AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS
> Cannot find node `AC_LIBOBJ vs'.
> 
> (hmmm.... maybe is is significant that the last word is always
> mssing).
> 
> [ I want to see this page because I think that warning
> only applies when WRITING to LIBOBJS, this application READS
> from it ]

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