The following lines are from the pod in package Texinfo::Parser (file:
Parser.pm)
You can see examples of the tree structure by running makeinfo like
this:
makeinfo -c DUMP_TREE=1 -c TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT=parse document.texi
However, makeinfo contains these lines in this order inside the
file-argument processing loop:
if (!defined($tree) or $format eq 'parse') {
handle_errors($parser, $error_count, \@opened_files);
next;
}
if (defined(get_conf('DUMP_TREE'))
or (get_conf('DEBUG') and get_conf('DEBUG') >= 10)) {
# this is very wrong, but a way to avoid a spurious warning.
no warnings 'once';
local $Data::Dumper::Purity = 1;
no warnings 'once';
local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
print STDERR Data::Dumper->Dump([$tree]);
}
The result is that the parser's tree contents never get dumped if
TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT is set to 'parse'.
Simply switching the order of the conditional blocks will remedy this.
