[PATCH 1/2] binutils/doc: Remove '.info' suffix in @ref, etc.

[Collin Funk]

Hi Jan,

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> writes:

>>     binutils.texi:882: warning: do not set .info suffix in reference for manual `ld.info'
>>     binutils.texi:1365: warning: do not set .info suffix in reference for manual `ld.info'
>> 
>> The Texinfo developers plan to stop removing the '.info' suffix
>> internally in a future release so without this patch the references will
>> break in the future.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
>
> And, just to double check, older tool versions cope with this?

Yep, older versions of Texinfo just strip the '.info' suffix before
creating the href [1]. They wanted to stop doing this, but since some
manuals still use the suffix in @ref they decided for 7.2 they would
just throw a warning instead of breaking references for some manuals.

Collin

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-10/msg00116.html