Re: [kulack@us.ibm.com: Get info working]

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

Oops.  Of course.  I didn't read this carefully enough (i.e., at all).

cgf

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:53:44PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>It's been discussed before.  Either here or the developers list.  There is no
>/usr/info/dir file.
>
>cd /usr/info
>for f in *.info; do install-info $f dir; done
>
>Earnie.
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> So, now the next question is "Has anyone noticed *this*?"
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>> ----- Forwarded message from kulack@us.ibm.com -----
>> 
>> From: kulack@us.ibm.com
>> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> Subject: Get info working
>> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:37:08 -0500
>> 
>> I've noticed that info path searching doesn't appear to work 'out of the
>> box' for the net release.
>> I've done some searching, and appear to have glimmers of things I need to
>> do to get it working, but can't quite grok it.
>> Anyone have a pointer?
>> Info always responds thusly, INFOPATH, --directory , or whatever.
>> info: dir: No such file or directory
>> Only when I do info --file /usr/info/gcc.info or the like does it work.
>> 
>> Also wouldn't mind finding a larger set of info files for the various
>> utilities (bash), but I'm sure I can find those.
>> 
>> ----- End forwarded message -----