No, I didn’t run “make check”. I didn’t have to build/make anything. Program “install-info” I got from the macports distribution (https://www.macports.org/ <https://www.macports.org/>, in the texinfo 6.0 port). The tar-1.28.tar.bz2 download provided “tar.info, tar.info-1, tar.info-2, tar.info-3”.
I also have install-info on my system from the Homebrew distribution (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew>, texinfo 5.2). The same error occurs with that install-info: /usr/local/Cellar/texinfo/5.2/bin/install-info --debug tar.info dir debug: reading dir file dir debug: reading input file tar.info Abort trap: 6 Alan Wehmann [email protected] > On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. > > The node name is missing (after the closing parenthesis), which is > allowed, although less common. > > Hmm. It's standard practice for dir file entries, as far as I can see > (not counting "Individual utilities"). > > Maybe the second set of parens causes the error, although I see that > coreutils, gzip, bison, and others also have that, so probably not. E.g., > * Coreutils: (coreutils). Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities. > > The other weird thing is that i-i has extensive tests. I'm surprised > the problem was not found there. If it wasn't, another test should be > added. > > Alan, did you run make check? > > k
