Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Bcc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 18:56:25 +0200
> 
> Apparently 'info' has used the information found in the 'dir' file of
> $dir1 (namely the reference to node "Invoking Automake") while using
> the .info file from $dir2.

Actually, all 'dir' files are concatenated into a single DIR node, and
only then used as a whole.

> It is a conceptual mistake to attempt to use information found in
> one of these directories together with other information found in
> another of these directories.

INFOPATH is not supposed to include 'dir' files with conflicting
contents.  The Info readers are not prepared to cope with such
calamity.  It is the job of whoever maintains the 'dir' files to
disambiguate entries there.  For example, you could have entries like

 * automake-1.11::

 * automake-1.12::

etc.  This admittedly an annoyance, but given the flat nature of 'dir'
files, what else can you expect?