Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 17.04.12 Norbert Preining (prein...@logic.at) wrote: Hi Norbert, on Debian we recently enabled hardening build flags, but that led to a strange effect, namely that info didn't display *anything* at all. You could start info, but there was an empty main window (text console), but the

Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 17 Apr 2012, Hilmar Preusse wrote: I'm failing to reproduce the problem. I have downgraded to the Debian version showing the problem (-9) and have a working info using the gnome-terminal and an ssh connection using putty. Hmmm... I use Intel i386, you and the submitter use amd64.

Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 18 Apr 2012, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hilmar is right, info works fine on i386 but does not work on amd64. Great, thanks for the info!!! THough, not that I now understand more ... I guess we wait until new texinfo is released with heavily rewritten info, and retest. Best wishes Norbert

Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi Hilmar and Norbert, On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:34:41 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: I will try to find one ... but actually don't know where I could find one that is running testing or sid. FYI. I have both i386 and amd64 machine so tried info. Hilmar is right, info works fine on i386 but does

Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
Hilmar, Karl, all I have no recompiled the current CVS version, some remarks: * dpkg-buildflags --export=configure is broken, or better -Werror=format-security is broken, as it reports footnotes.c: In function ‘info_show_footnotes’: footnotes.c:258:11: error: format not a string