Re: elisp info files -- missing Index?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Stephen Eglen wrote:

> [Excuse the to: and cc: list but it is unclear who to send
> documentation bugs of this nature to.

gnu.emacs.bug (cc'ed) is the right place.

> I recently downloaded the elisp.info tar ball from 
> 
>   ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu/Manuals/
>   elisp-manual-20-2.5/info/elisp-info.tar.gz 
> 
> The info file has a section called "Index", after "Standard Hooks" and
> before "New Symbols":
> 
> * Standard Hooks::          List of standard hook variables.
> * Index::                   Index including concepts, functions, variables,
>                               and other terms.
> * New Symbols::             New functions and variables in Emacs 20.
> 
> However, when in the Emacs browser, if I click on "Index:" I get the
> following error:
> 
>   No such anchor in tag table or node in tag table or file: Index
> 
> It seems that the index is missing from the .info file.  I think it
> should be in the file elisp-41, but it is missing.
> 
> % grep 'Index' elisp*
> elisp-1:* Index::                   Index including concepts, [...]
> elisp-41:File: elisp,  Node: Standard Hooks,  Next: Index,  [...]
> elisp-41:File: elisp,  Node: New Symbols,  Prev: Index,  Up: Top

Something here is very strange.  I downloaded the same 
elisp-manual-20-2.5.tar.gz, but from ftp.gnu.org, and I don't see any 
problem there.  First, the Index node is in elisp-42 file, not elisp-41.
And second, the Index is there, right where it should be.

So I'd say whoever prepared that elisp-info.tar.gz on wuarchive did a 
poor job, or had some build-time snafu.  I suggest to use the 
distribution from ftp.gnu.org instead.