Eli Zaretskii wrote :
>
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>
> > When building texinfo-4.0 on aix4.1.5, I get the following :
> >
> > Making all in doc
> > gnumake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/build/texinfo/doc'
> > ../makeinfo/makeinfo -I/share/src/gnu/texinfo-4.0/doc texinfo.txi
> > texinfo.txi:639: Node `Copying' requires a sectioning command (e.g. @top).
>
> Something strange is going on here: this problem should not exist with
> Texinfo 4.0. Older versions (3.12, I think) had a bug that could cause
> this.
>
> If you look into texinfo.txi, you will see that there is a @top command
> on line 135. It is conditioned on @ifnottex, though, so if on your
> system this somehow does not work, you could see this problem. Texinfo
> 3.12 had a bug in handling @ifnottex that would cause such failures. I'm
> puzzled how could this happen to you, since your report clearly shows
> that Make runs the version of `makeinfo' from the distribution of Texinfo
> 4.0. Very strange...
I suspect it is some C code that behaves differently on aix4.1.5 than on many
other systems. the same untarred texinfo-4.0 builds and passes all the
checks without problem on my other platform m68k-motorola-sysv
Philippe
