Bug#213618: gcc-3.3-doc: "info gcc" brings up internals docs, not user docs

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Andrew Pimlott writes:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:24:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > tags 213618 + unreproducible
> 
> When doing non-exactly menu lookup, the stand-alone info reader
> looks for an exact match (returning the first hit), then a
> case-insensitive match (returning the first hit), then a
> case-insensitive prefix match (returning the last hit).  (This is in
> info_follow_menus.)
> 
> In my /usr/share/info/dir, gcc-3.3 comes before gccint-3.3, and
> there are no other gcc entries installed.  It looks like the order
> is alphabetical within sections (ie, Development).
> 
> So a solution to my specific problem would be to rename things so
> the gcc file is alphabetically last.  That's pretty dumb, though.
> Ideally, there would be a way to give an info page an alias, but
> that doesn't seem to exist.  Maybe the best thing is to change the
> weird logic in the info reader.  Or I should just give up and admit
> that info pages don't correspond directly to program names.

or install the gcc-doc package.