bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

[Joachim Schmitz]

I didn't change the coreutils.texi, but 'make' though it needed to get
rebuild, so there seems to be problem in the coreutils tarball?
Then I changed it, to 'fix' that problem (by removing 3 times "&/"), after
that my ancient makeinfo worked just fine...

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 7:36 PM
To: Joachim Schmitz
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

On 07/11/11 05:38, Joachim Schmitz wrote:

> Could this due to makeinfo being too old?

Yes, that's it.  texinfo 4.2 is ancient.

You shouldn't need to run makeinfo unless you're changing the manual,
because makeinfo's output is part of the coreutils tarball.  If you are
updating the manual, please upgrade to the current version, which is 4.13.
If you ran makeinfo despite not changing the manual, then that's a bug in
the tarball that we'd need to fix.