Bug#992471: segmentation fault with "info -a ..."

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

Hi Bjarni,

thanks

> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00005555555657ee in info_get_menu_entry_by_label (node=node@entry=0x0, label=label@entry=0x5555555c2050 "bash", 
>     sloppy=sloppy@entry=1) at info-utils.c:225
> #1  0x000055555555db18 in dir_entry_of_infodir (label=label@entry=0x5555555c2050 "bash", 
>     searchdir=0x5555555c1f10 "/usr/local/share/info") at dir.c:294
> #2  0x000055555555bf6c in info_find_matching_files (filename=0x5555555c2050 "bash") at info.c:582
> #3  main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at info.c:937
> (gdb) quit

Ok ... it shouldn't crash here indeed.

>   Probable cause is an empty "/usr/local/share/info/dir".

>   File "dir" is only readable by root and is not empy.
> "automake" installed the latest file.

You need to call 
	install-info FILE /usr/local/share/info/dir
for the .info FILE you installed

Also, make sure it is readable my world ..

Best

Norbert

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