[arch-general] Top level node not shown in Texinfo viewer

[Allan McRae]

On 09/12/11 10:56, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:20:01AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 09/12/11 07:53, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> I see the same thing as you, ie nothing when executing `info'.  Most
>>> likely a bug.  Have you reported it already?
> 
> I didn't report in Arch nor upstream. I wanted to confirm the bug first.
> 
>> It shows the top level node here...
> 
> I did a fresh install with mkarchroot and I could reproduce the issue.
> 
> Here I uploaded my dir file and the strace output from info, where we
> can see that /usr/share/info/dir is stated, opened, read and then
> closed:
> 
> 	http://r.untroubled.be/private/dir
> 	http://r.untroubled.be/private/info.trace
> 
> I compared the Ubuntu dir with the Arch dir and those files do not
> present any relevant difference.
> 
> One silly question (I'm not an ABS expert), in the package sources I saw
> defined in the file `texinfo.install':
> 
> 	infodir=usr/share/info
> 
> Does it matter the relative path?, in contrast to something like this:
> 
> 	infodir=/usr/share/info

That does not matter.  In fact, without the leading slash is probably
more correct...