info auto generate dir broken

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I have Info Auto Generate Directory set as: Info Auto Generate Directory: * [Value Menu] always But it doesn't work! If I have an empty file /usr/share/info/dir, then none of the contents of /usr/share/info are listed when I do C-h i. If I remove the empty file, then it works. Clearly, xemacs is not ignoring the dir file regardless of the setting of Info Auto Generate Directory. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux rpppc1.md.hns.com 2.4.18-5 #1 Mon Jun 10 15:37:14 EDT 2002 i686 unknown ./configure 'athlon-redhat-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-gpm=no' '--with-sound=native' '--with-pop' '--mail-locking=lockf' '--with-clash-detection' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' '--with-mule=yes' '--with-database=berkdb' '--with-ldap=yes' '--with-hesiod=no' '--with-canna=yes' '--with-wnn=yes' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-widgets=lucid' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-scrollbars=lucid' '--with-dialogs=lucid' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-msw=no' '--with-xfs=yes' '--with-dragndrop' '--pdump' XEmacs 21.4-b9 "Informed Management (RC1)" configured for `i686-redhat-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4-b9 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Using Motif native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for LDAP. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval. Compiling in support for "lockf" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new portable dumper. 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