Re: Installing info files

Re: Installing info files

[Michael Sokolov]

"Russ.Shaw" <russell@webaxs.net> wrote:

> I did "make info" and "make install-info" in a newlib build directory,
> and it installed various files such as configure.info etc into
> /usr/local/info.

Well, it's a toolchain maintainer's responsibility that it gets correctly to
this point, so I'm good. :-)

> However, i can't get them to display in the info reader.
> Also, i can't find anything such as an INFOPATH environment variable.

Sorry, not my department. I don't use info, or in fact any GNU software other
than the Cygnus toolchain.

> Is there another step to make these files known to the info reader?

I'm not sure. I don't recall having any info-related targets in the Cygnus tree
makefiles other than info and install-info.

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Installing info files

[Theo Honohan]

Russ.Shaw wrote ("Installing info files"):
> I did "make info" and "make install-info" in a newlib build directory,
> and it installed various files such as configure.info etc into
> /usr/local/info. However, i can't get them to display in the info reader.
> Also, i can't find anything such as an INFOPATH environment variable.
> 
> Is there another step to make these files known to the info reader?

There is an INFOPATH variable, but it's probably not the only thing
you need to alter.  The info reader uses a listing stored in the "dir"
file of each info directory to find the files themselves.  There is no
reliable way of managing these dir files, although some systems
provide a program (e.g. Debian Linux's "install-info", don't know
about others) for updating them when a new file is installed.

The section "Creating and Installing Info Files" in texinfo.info is
helpful.  If you haven't even got texinfo.info, a Google search for
that section heading will turn up the document on the web.



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Installing info files

[Russ.Shaw]

I did "make info" and "make install-info" in a newlib build directory,
and it installed various files such as configure.info etc into
/usr/local/info. However, i can't get them to display in the info reader.
Also, i can't find anything such as an INFOPATH environment variable.

Is there another step to make these files known to the info reader?

Michael Sokolov wrote:
> 
> "Russ.Shaw" <russell@webaxs.net> wrote:
> 
> > When i install newlib-1.8.2, gcc, and binutils on a pc linux
> > system, where should configure.texi and porting.texi get installed?
> 
> Nowhere. .texi files are not installed, they stay in the source tree. If you
> have texinfo, you can do a make info to make .info files from them, which you
> can then install with make install-info. But as I've said, I personally don't
> do this because I prefer to read them directly with vi in the source tree. But
> then of course I'm different from most other people. :-) I'm a regular
> Cygnus/GNU toolchain developer and spend most of my time in the source tree, so
> it's more convenient for me to read all the docs right there. But of course, I
> don't expect this from others. :-)
> 

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