Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A940D2F.41E9AD83@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:47:11 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mumit Khan CC: Charles Russell , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: question about configuring or calling info References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mumit Khan wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Charles Russell wrote: > > > 1) info g77 just gives me the man page for g77. I can't get into the .info files. (I'm using Windows 98, cygwin downloaded yesterday.) > > [ please use an email client that wraps line intelligently ] > > When given a name to look up, info first looks for a "Directory" file in > /usr/info (that's the path built into Cygwin info, and changable via both > command line arg and with environment variable), and if it doesn't find > it, it starts looking for man pages. The info package itself should > install a minimal version of /usr/info/dir and then subsequent packages > should use install-info to add "itself" to it. > > You can always bypass the "dir" file and look something up directly: > > $ info -f g77 > > To fix this issue: > > $ cd /usr/info > $ for i in *.info texinfo; do > install-info $i dir > done > [ ignore the various warnings ] > $ info g77 > > This has been discussed in the past in the Cygwin mailing list, but I > don't know what the resolution was on the fix. > This is the fix. The problem with /usr/info/dir is that individual packages create it before installing it and then copy it to the $(prefix)/info directory so you loose it occasionally when the packager forgets to remove it. > > 2) Where should I look for answers to this kind of question? I tried the FAQ. > > This is as good a place as any, but of course the assumption is that the > topic is not in the FAQ nor discussed in the mailing list (archives are > searchable, at least most of the time). > IIRC, this is in the FAQ as it is one. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple