Patch requested for info.el

[email protected] (Henry S. Thompson) Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:10:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that some releases of makeinfo, in particular 5.1, which
ships with RHEL7, have a small incompatibility with the way we (and
Emacs) read subfiles.  Although this problem doesn't arise in makeinfo
6, it would be good to fix it.  Fortunately Emacs has a fix, described
here (along with analysis of the problem):

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-04/msg00029.html

Could we have this done to our info.el, please?  Note that it does
_not_ break forward compatibility to do this, i.e it works with old
(4.13), middle-aged (5.1) and young (6.0) versions of makeinfo.

Thanks,

ht
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