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RE: INFO Death
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:55:08 -0000
- Subject: RE: INFO Death
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> Sent: 03 November 2004 09:31
> Arthur I Schwarz wrote:
> > Symptoms:
> > >> info info
> > info: dir: No such file or directory
>
> Reinstall the _update_info_dir package or run:
> $ sh /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done
Hey! That script's a bit harsh:
-------------------------<snip!>-------------------------
dk@mace /artimi> cat /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.
sh.done
#!/bin/sh
rm -f /usr/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
-------------------------<snip!>-------------------------
because surely that means that if you've got lots of dirs in your $INFOPATH,
e.g.
> INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autoto
> ol/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:
and you've gone and rebuilt the info index so you can read all your local
info, that's going to un-do it, isn't it? Should it perhaps say
> for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info ${INFOPATH} do
(modulo perhaps eliminating duplicates)?
cheers,
DaveK
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