Re: master 5a125fb5a97 1/2: Update to Org 9.7.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: kyle@kyleam.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:21:56 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I was not aware that Emacs uses a custom awk script to parse .org source
> >> in addition to .texi source.
> >> 
> >> The existence of such script implies that .texi files generated by Org
> >> are not well-formatted. May you please explain why org.org file needs to
> >> be parsed and why parsing org.texi is not sufficient?
> >
> > I don't think it has anything to do with formatting of org.texi.  The
> > issue here is that info/DIR file might be generated when org.texi is
> > not yet available or not yet up-to-date, such as during bootstrap or
> > after some change in org.org.  IOW, the reason for this behavior is
> > that we want to produce info/DIR from the source files, not from the
> > generated files.
> 
> Ok. Although that awk script is fragile. May it be test-covered somehow?

Since it's used almost every build, I'd say it's already covered ;-)

Maybe Stefan could tell how he found this problem, and then we can
take it from there.