regression: ESS cannot be compiled

2016-03-03 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all, down here at Debian we got another bug report about a FTBFS, which went away when switching to an older version of texinfo.tex: On Thu, 03 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Ok, the obvious fix of fattening the source directory with a working copy of > texinfo.tex did the trick. I

info crashes if .infokey contains the "invalid" action

2016-03-03 Thread Ken Brown
A Cygwin user reported a crash as in the subject. I traced it to line 468 of info/infokey.c, in which there is a reference to function_doc_array[a] with a == A_INVALID: ke.value.function = _doc_array[a]; As a result, ke.value.function contains garbage. The following patch appears to fix