Re: info utility: buggy resolution of cross references

On 2026-02-24 15:38:48 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It is okay to make the Info reader more robust in these situations,
> but by and large, the assumption is and always has been that the
> directory where Info files are stored should have nothing except Info
> files (including DIR and any image files used by the manuals).  If any
> other files are present there, IMNSHO it's a cockpit mistake of sorts,
> and the solution should be to remove those non-Info files.  They have
> no reason to be there.

I agree about directories from the info path, but *not* for
directories outside of the info path. The latter occurs when
following a cross-reference from an info file that was given
on the command line, e.g. in a source tree, typically during
the development and testing of software.

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