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Re: [rfa/doc/branch too] Texinfo problems
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [rfa/doc/branch too] Texinfo problems
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:40:18 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> While building Debian gdb packages, I ran into two problems. One is, I
> think, a problem in Debian's tools rather than gdb; the line:
>
> @dircategory Programming & development tools.
>
> gets munged.
How does it get munged?
> I assume & is a legal character here?
The Texinfo manual doesn't say anything about characters that are
invalid in @dircategory, and I don't see anything in makeinfo's code
which would treat & specially, except maybe under --html.
> In any case, Debian happens to use Development
I don't understand that: what ``Development'' did you refer to here?
What does "makeinfo --version" print?
> install-info --quiet --section 'Programming #SECTION# development tools.'
> 'Programming #SECTION# development tools.' /usr/share/info/gdbint.info
> install-info: warning, ignoring confusing INFO-DIR-ENTRY in file.
>
> I think the patch below is correct. OK to commit, trunk and branch?
Yes, thanks.
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
>
> 2001-07-30 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
> * gdbint.texinfo: Remove extraneous START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> and END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY.
>
> Index: gdbint.texinfo
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 gdbint.texinfo
> --- gdbint.texinfo 2001/07/24 10:35:42 1.32
> +++ gdbint.texinfo 2001/07/30 19:04:14
> @@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
> @include gdb-cfg.texi
> @dircategory Programming & development tools.
> @direntry
> -START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * Gdb-Internals: (gdbint). The GNU debugger's internals.
> -END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> @end direntry
>
> @ifinfo
>