Re: install and info

From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: install and info
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:41:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsgiaqjw.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D7CF4CD8-EE6C-4803-AA1B-156DB79538C3@uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu\, 9 Oct 2008 07\:45\:08 +0200")

On three systems I have access to the info files are in /usr/share/info

  - Debian
  - FreeBSD
  - Ubuntu

-Bernt

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd be happy to change the default to
>
>    infodir = $(prefix)/share/info
>
>
> if this is a better default for most systems.  Is it better?  So could
> people on
> different systems out there please check where the standard info
> directory is located?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>>
>> There might be an inconsistency in the install process. Well, on my
>> debian system.
>>
>> In the Makefile we have
>>
>> ,----
>> | # Where local software is found
>> | prefix=/usr/local
>> |
>> | # Where local lisp files go.
>> | lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
>> |
>> | # Where info files go.
>> | infodir = $(prefix)/info
>> `----
>>
>> Now I dont pretend to even begin to understand how the info system
>> works
>> but a "sudo make install-info" does not work because (a) it puts the
>> file into /usr/local/info and my system appears to expect it in
>> /usr/local/share/info. In addition the install info command appears to
>> be broken:
>>
>> ,----
>> | if [ ! -d /usr/local/info ]; then mkdir -p /usr/local/info; else
>> true; fi ;
>> | cp -p doc/org /usr/local/info
>> | install-info --info-file=doc/org --info-dir=/usr/local/info
>> | Usage: install-info [<options> ...] [--] <filename>
>> `----
>>
>> Hopefully someone can shed some light. I think it used to work but am
>> not sure if I was picking up a local info file before.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the
>> machine we have created to serve us.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith
>>
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