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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:47:11 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
CC: Charles Russell <crussell AT uabmc DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: question about configuring or calling info
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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.

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