On 30 October 2015 at 23:11, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > * Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. > > The node name is missing (after the closing parenthesis), which is > allowed, although less common. > > Hmm. It's standard practice for dir file entries, as far as I can see > (not counting "Individual utilities").
You're right. Maybe it's the other line that causes the problem then? > > Maybe the second set of parens causes the error, although I see that > coreutils, gzip, bison, and others also have that, so probably not. E.g., > * Coreutils: (coreutils). Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities. > > The other weird thing is that i-i has extensive tests. I'm surprised > the problem was not found there. If it wasn't, another test should be > added. Problem is, the tests have to fail. When I did what Alan did it didn't fail. FWIW I hooked valgrind into the test suite and ran make check again, but got no further errors (except for memory leaks).
