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RE: info & Setup 1.43 (new version)
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: info & Setup 1.43 (new version)
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 20:39:38 +0200
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at cygnus dot com>
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingéniérie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
b.dautrevaux@usa.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:37 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Cc: DJ Delorie
> Subject: Re: info & Setup 1.43 (new version)
>
>
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:50:59AM +1000, David O'Shea wrote:
> >I installed using setup 1.43 from mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> again, into C:\,
> >and it worked fine.
> >
> >With regards to info, there just doesn't seem to be a "dir"
> file (the main
> >directory page you get when you just run "info") in the
> distribution. I
> >made one this way:
> >
> >cd /usr/info
> >for F in *.info texinfo; do
> >install-info --info-dir=. $F
> >done
> >
> >Got a few errors about the gzip and time info pages, so I added them
> >manually (dir is basically a plain text file).
> >
> >I don't guarantee that this is neccessarily the right thing
> to do, but it
> >gives you an info directory anyway. Apologies in advance if I'm
> >misleading people.
>
> Isn't there a better way to create a dir file than this? I
> have created
> dir files that way myself but I thought I'd discovered a different way
> somewhere along the line.
I think that is the best way to create the dir file; in fact, ideally, that
should be done automatically by setup.exe.
>
> If we get a correct dir file, we'll add it to the distribution.
IMHO It's not good to ship a dir file, as users are allowed to install only
parts of cygwin (I hope :-)), so a prebuilt dir file will reference
unexisting info files and may be difficult to maintain.
Regards,
Bernard
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingéniérie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
b.dautrevaux@usa.net
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