Re: [PATCH] Fix texinfo problems...

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

   > *Please* don't add the node links back!!  I went to some trouble to get
   > rid of them all, because they make for an utter nightmare when you're
   > trying to add new material.  They're only useful if you want to link
   > nodes in some fashion other than that implied by the chapter/section
   > structure, and as of yet I haven't heard anyone come up with a good
   > rationale for linking in any other way.
   > 
   > The replication of the TOC node with ifinfo and ifhtml is sufficient
   > to make the manual generate correctly with three versions of texinfo,
   > so I'm mystified as to why you think these other changes are necessary...

   I'm sorry, but please _don't_ delete them until I've cut this 5.0 branch
   :-) Without top level node entries I found that makeinfo 3.12 I was
   using failed.

I tested with Texinfo 3.12 the patches that only duplicated the Top
node and the menu, and they worked for me.  Perhaps you could post the
error messages you get with those patches, and we could then find out
how to solve that.

(Are you sure you used Texinfo 3.12 without any patches?)