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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:29:27 -0400
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On 9/2/2013 11:36 AM, Thiers Botelho wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new user of CygWin and a former user of some Linux distros.
>
> I'm having the following issue with the 'info' command:
>
> thiers AT Win-Samsung ~
> $ info
> info: dir: No such file or directory
>
> I did some searches, but really... searching stuff where 'info' is the
> keyword is bound to, and DOES, return a lot of useless 'info'...
>
> I've searched the CygWin mailing list; what I've got is the
> not-so-clear suspicion that I need to 'install' something. Here are
> the closest leads I've got - they're 13 years old:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00005.html
> ### this guy had the same issue I'm having.
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00126.html
> ### then this guy suggested running some kind of hand-made script (not
> really meaningful to me) around the install-info command (which indeed
> exists in my CygWin folder)
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00184.html
> ### and this other guy suggested using command 'gen-dir-node' (which I
> didn't find in my CygWin build).
>
> So what I'd like to know is, are there any clear instructions
> somewhere about how to make the 'info' command work properly under
> Cygwin ??

There's a postinstall script called 'update-info-dir.sh' which is 
supposed to get run automatically by setup.exe to create the info 
directory.  If this didn't happen for some reason, you can run it 
manually.  (Look for it in /etc/postinstall.)  In case you don't have 
it, here are the contents:

#!/bin/bash
rm -f /usr/info/dir.info /usr/share/info/dir.info /usr/info/dir 
/usr/share/info/dir
for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info; do
     for f in $d/*; do
	case "$f" in
	    *\**)
		;;
	    */dir|*/dir.info*)
		;;
	    *-[0123456789]*)
		;;
	    *)
		install-info --quiet $f /usr/share/info/dir ||
		install-info  --quiet --entry="* $$f ($f): $$f" $$f /usr/share/info/dir
		;;
	esac
     done
done >/dev/null 2>&1

Ken


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