Bug in describe?



Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> writes:
>     Jaime> On 01-12-2013 18:54, Raymond Toy wrote:
>     >> Works fine for me with current git and cmucl, clisp, gcl.
>     >> 
>     >> When this has happened to me, it was always due to the index being
>     >> out-of-date wrt to the current info files.  Rebuilding the info files
>     >> has always fixed that for me.
>     Jaime> Strange. I have made sure there are no maxima info files anywhere
>     Jaime> (cleaned /usr/local/share/info/ and confirmed that describe complaints
>     Jaime> that there are no info files), got  fresh new copy of the git
>     Jaime> repository and built Maxima and the info files from scratch, but I
>     Jaime> still get the same error (? foo shows documentation for something
>     Jaime> else).
>     Jaime> I see that the info files are built in the making process and the
>     Jaime> files in /usr/local/share/info/ have just been created but the info is
>     Jaime> still wrong.
>
> Hmm. I rarely ever install maxima, but I did just now and it still
> works fine for me with cmucl, clisp, and ccl.
>
> I think at this point, we have to figure out exactly what file it's
> loading and work back from there to figure out why the index is wrong.

I decided to stop thinking about this a while ago, but... Is it possible
that you see this with texinfo 5 and other people are using texinfo 4?

Rupert
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