On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:06:38PM +0200, Bj???rn Lindstr???m wrote:
> I get this error after each emerge. What is up with that?
> 
> install-info: menu item `Bash' already exists, for file `bash'
>  * Processed 86 info files; 1 errors.

Known problem: see <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23939>

In summary, this is because there is a symlink 'bashref.info.gz' in the
info files directory, which points to 'bash.info.gz'.  When the program
that creates the info dir file scans over them, it sees that both these
files have the same menu items in them, and tosses an error.

You can ignore the error, as the bash menu item is created anyway.

Note that this bug was apparently created in an attempt to fix another
bug, <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22168>, which was caused
by the bash.info page actually considering itself to be bashref.info
internally.  So at its core this is realy an error with the bash
distribution, and an imperfect workaround.

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