Hi. I'm the maintainer for the Debian GNU/Linux package of
Autoconf. It looks like the Texinfo manual for Autoconf 2.53 has
a node name with a `.' in it. That's not okay, as the Texinfo
manual says in section "`@node' Line Requirements":
* Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or
apostrophes within a node name; these confuse TeX or the Info
formatters.
Emacs does okay with them, but they confuse the standalone Info
viewer. Brian: for now, perhaps you should try using the Info
mode inside Emacs.
Here is the bug report as originally given to me:
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: autoconf
> Version: 2.53-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> I got this error:
>
> configure.in:652: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see section
>`AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'
>
>
> However, if I attempt to view that section in the info documentation
> (eg. from table of contents), I get an error like:
>
> Cannot find node `(/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz)AC_LIBOBJ vs'.
>
> I have also tried going to the Hosts and Cross-Compilation, and
> pushing N to go to the next node, but it still doesn't work.
>
> Or:
>
> Goto node: AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS
> Cannot find node `AC_LIBOBJ vs'.
>
> (hmmm.... maybe is is significant that the last word is always
> mssing).
>
> [ I want to see this page because I think that warning
> only applies when WRITING to LIBOBJS, this application READS
> from it ]
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