Re: install and info

From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: install and info
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:08:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkd4i9rk4h.fsf@development.richardriley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsgiaqjw.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (Bernt Hansen's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:41:55 -0400")

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> On three systems I have access to the info files are in /usr/share/info
>
>   - Debian
>   - FreeBSD
>   - Ubuntu

Debian and Ubuntu should be the same I would think since Ubunti is
Debian based.

But there is an org which ships with emacs. I would expect the info file
from that to be there.

If one installs from CVS/git should it not be in /usr/local/share/info ?

I really am not sure personally and frequently have had issues with
other packages and the installation and location of Info files.

>
> -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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