Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-07-07 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Norbert, to go to the Top dir file again showed nothing. After removing the hardening flags it worked again, so I assume that is is related to that. The way we are compiling is wiht FYI: we are finally getting close enough to a texinfo pretest that I tried your "hardening" recipe

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-22 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:39:11PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > A diff against the latest CVS version of the info directory is > attached. > > I applied it. Thanks. Pleasure! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-20 Thread Karl Berry
A diff against the latest CVS version of the info directory is attached. I applied it. Thanks. k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:07:24AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Norbert Preining wrote: > > > footnotes.c: In function ‘info_show_footnotes’: > > footnotes.c:258:11: error: format not a string literal and no format > > arguments [-Werror=format-security] > > footnotes.c:262:

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-18 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Norbert Preining wrote: > footnotes.c: In function ‘info_show_footnotes’: > footnotes.c:258:11: error: format not a string literal and no format > arguments [-Werror=format-security] > footnotes.c:262:11: error: format not a string literal and no > format arguments [-Werr

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
Hilmar, Karl, all I have no recompiled the current CVS version, some remarks: * dpkg-buildflags --export=configure is broken, or better -Werror=format-security is broken, as it reports footnotes.c: In function ‘info_show_footnotes’: footnotes.c:258:11: error: format not a str

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi Hilmar and Norbert, On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:34:41 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > I will try to find one ... but actually don't know where I could > find one that is running testing or sid. FYI. I have both i386 and amd64 machine so tried info. Hilmar is right, info works fine on i386 but doe

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 18 Apr 2012, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hilmar is right, info works fine on i386 but does not > work on amd64. Great, thanks for the info!!! THough, not that I now understand more ... I guess we wait until new texinfo is released with heavily rewritten info, and retest. Best wishes Norbert

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 17 Apr 2012, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > I'm failing to reproduce the problem. I have downgraded to the Debian > version showing the problem (-9) and have a working info using the > gnome-terminal and an ssh connection using putty. Hmmm... > I use Intel i386, you and the submitter use amd64. U

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-17 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 17.04.12 Norbert Preining (prein...@logic.at) wrote: Hi Norbert, > on Debian we recently enabled hardening build flags, but that led to > a strange effect, namely that info didn't display *anything* at all. > You could start info, but there was an empty main window (text console), > but the st

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 16 Apr 2012, Karl Berry wrote: > (I tried compiling current sources, but that didn't work out, > > Sergey has made a ton of changes since info 4.13. Really need to work > from the development sources. I can try compiling with your options at > some point. Ok, I had problem with the

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-16 Thread Karl Berry
Does anyone have an idea why this might happen? Not out of my head. And Sergey's main server (gnu.org.ua) apparently developed hardware woes, so I doubt he'll be able to answer anything Texinfo-related quickly. (I tried compiling current sources, but that didn't work out, Sergey has ma

Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

2012-04-16 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Karl, hi everyone, on Debian we recently enabled hardening build flags, but that led to a strange effect, namely that info didn't display *anything* at all. You could start info, but there was an empty main window (text console), but the status line showed the INfo: (dir)Top, 1 lin