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Re: groff & man in latest
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:58:46PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>>
>> FYI, I did try 'info', too. But it gives a "dir: No such file or directory"
>> error.
>
>I usually run a script like the following after installing packages:
>
> cd /usr/local/share/info # or wherever your info directory is
> for i in *info*; do
> install-info $i dir
> done
>
>Assuming of course that you have install-info (from makeinfo) installed.
>
>There's probably a better way to handle this, but this works for me.
>Some of the packages are known to have buggy *.info files that causes
>those to be left out of the dir file however.
I usually do something similar. There are a lot of info files in /usr/info
but there is no /usr/info/dir. Is there an easy way to generate that?
cgf