[help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index

[Harry Putnam]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Harry Putnam <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:22:29 -0600
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> >
>> > They did no such thing.  I have CVS Info manual in the old format, and
>> > the index there works for me inside Emacs.
>> >
>> >> If they didn't make that decision, it simply seems like a bug introduced
>> >> since 23.1 was released, based on the evidence at hand.
>> >
>> > Nope, the above works for me in stock Emacs 23.1.
>> 
>> Eli, if you can, what is the date on your copy of cvs info files.  And
>> how many are there?
>
> Exactly like yours:
>
>> For me, with cvs  1.12.12 (client/server), The info files are already
>> created in the sources pkg.  They date from 2005 and there are 11 of
>> them.
>
> Me too.
>
>> Those files fail on an `i' (index) search with the message `no index'.
>
> Please look in cvs.info, and tell me what does its first line say.

A few more than 1:

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| This is cvs.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.5 from cvs.texinfo.
| 
| INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Packages
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| * CVS: (cvs).                   Concurrent Versions System
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| * cvs: (cvs)CVS commands.       Concurrent Versions System
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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>> However the index itself is there in the first page menu and can be
>> opened and read.
>
> Can you show here the first few lines of the Index node (it should be
> in cvs.info-10), starting from the line before the Node line?

Here, the index Node is in cvs.info-11:
[...]
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| 
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| 
| ^_
| File: cvs.info,  Node: Index,  Prev: BUGS,  Up: Top
| 
| Index
| *****
| 
| * Menu:
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