[20378] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.3: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Jun 3 15:46:42 2002
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 03 Jun 2002 15:46:39 -0400
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<nathanw@MIT.EDU> (Nathan J. Williams) writes:
> I'm not well-versed in the format and creation of info files, but at a
> glance, the /usr/athena/info/emacs file on a 9.1 system is very large (900k)
> compared to the corresponding file on a 9.0 system (16k), and does not
> contain the "Indirect" or "Tag Table" sections at the end.
There's nothing wrong with that per se; it just means that that the
9.0 version automatically split the content out into emacs-1, emacs-2,
etc. and left pointers in the main file, whereas the 9.1 version just
put everything into one big file and dispensed with the pointers.
> The 9.1 version starts with:
> This is Info file ../info/emacs, produced by Makeinfo version 1.68
>
> where the 9.0 version starts with:
> This is ../info/emacs, produced by makeinfo version 4.0
>
> which also seems suspicious.
The elisp and C implementations of makeinfo have different version
numbers.
I don't know why the new info file is actually failing.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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