Re: info anchor not working in emacs23

[Renny John <jdak07@gmail.com>]

On May 19, 4:21 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> Renny John <jda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wrote some documentation in info using emacs23.
> > Had an @xref{fhv001,,Text}. point to an @anchor{fhv001}
> > Made an info file [No errors]
> > But when I read the info file in emacs, the cross reference gives me
> > the error "No such anchor or node".
> > The cross-reference works fine in the info program run from the
> > terminal.
> > Tested on Macintosh and Ubuntu with the same results.
> > How can I make this work in emacs?
>
> This sounds like a bug in Emacs.  Could you construct a minimal texinfo
> file which illustrates the problem, then post it with a bug report to
> bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org?
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

posted a bug report.
per reply posted by Glenn Morris, tried from terminal : emacs -Q --
eval '(info "./test.info")'
now its working as expected.

One question remains though -
wouldn't the above be equivalent to doing in emacs?

C-x C-f  ./test.info
M-: (Info-mode)