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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:58:17 -0400
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On 9/5/2013 7:03 AM, Thiers Botelho wrote:
> NOTE: I'm replying from the digest, so in case the list does not hook
> up the appropriate reference pointers, here they are:
>
> 1. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00024.html
> 2.http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00031.html
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:18 PM, <cygwin-digest-help AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:29:27 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: INFO issues
>> 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
>>
>
> Thx a lot Ken - that did it. INFO command now works properly !
>
> And now that begs a follow-up question...
>
> After some digging around about how the post-install scripts work in
> CygWin, and doing some complementary testing, it seems that, every
> time that CygWin Setup runs, the script will be run once and then
> renamed with a '.done' suffix. So that, if I want the script to run
> every time that Setup runs, I have to remember to manually rename it
> back to '.sh' after each setup run, which is, erm, sub-optimal.
>
> Any ideas about getting around this repeated manual renaming ???

There's no need for manual renaming except when something goes wrong. 
In general, update-info-dir.sh should get run whenever it's needed. 
There's a bug that's currently preventing this from happening; cgf has 
stated that he's working on it:

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-09/msg00009.html

Ken


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