install-info question

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Jun 3 02:44:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:01 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> This is info/plplotdoc.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from
> plplotdoc.texi.
> 
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * The PLplot Plotting Library: .   ???
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> 
> 
> 
> So, what's wrong here?
I am not a texinfo specialist, but the INFO-DIR-ENTRY section above
seems broken to me.

It should be something of this kind:
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* The PLplot Plotting Library: (plplotdoc).   ???
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

Note the ": (XXX)." [1]

The origin is the corresponding @direntry section in plplotdoc.texi. 
As this seems to be a generated file, I have no idea how to fix this.

Also, c.f. 
info texinfo 'Installing Dir Entries'

Ralf

[1] I had been hit by a similar bug in a package, I maintain.
Without having investigated in depth, it seems to me, as if the XXX in 
": (XXX)." is required by newer install-info.





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