On 14 September 2016 at 20:00, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I guess that it shouldn't be -1. I'd guess it's due to the line:
>
> before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes a
>
> being one character too long.
>
I've committed a change that should fix this error message.
Thanks for the diagnosis. I installed the attached workaround into
Autoconf to work around the problem, as unfixed Texinfo versions will be
around for a while.
From d3a4cccfe8807c7354ef6edd2913362d34d8e574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:14:45 -0700
Subject:
On 14 September 2016 at 00:22, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I ran into this problem when building the Autoconf manual using Texinfo 6.3
> on Fedora 24, which has Perl 5.22.2. With the attached file (which is a
> stripped-down version of the manual), the command 'makeinfo autoconf.texi'
> complains:
>
>
