Created attachment 307321 [details]
forms.info crasher

Hi, Thanks your for report. Should be fixed in texinfo-4.12-3.fc10. Please try.

The crash is indeed gone, but the stuff install-info installs for forms.info
looks like some kind of binary junk, not the usual textual representation.  I
don't know if this is expected of info 4.12, reopening just in case.

On a F8 box, with info-4.11-4.fc8.x86_64, for forms.info I get in "dir":

Miscellaneous
* Forms::               Mode for working with simple textual data bases in a
                       forms-oriented manner

With 4.12-2.fc10.x86_64 on the same (F-8) box, I see (copied from vim):

Miscellaneous
^PÓ^?^A

Any thoughts/news?  Still happens with info-4.12-4.fc10.x86_64 (installed on a
F-9 box), 4.11-5.fc9 works fine.

builds as of 2008-07-03, version 4.12-4.fc10.

Please see the earlier comments.  It no longer crashes but does produce an
apparently corrupt "dir" file -> reopening and adjusting summary.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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