Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:30:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: asami@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/1550: "make install" needs to know how to update /usr/local/info/dir Message-ID: <199608301130.NAA07174@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199608300930.CAA28383@freefall.freebsd.org> from Satoshi Asami at "Aug 30, 96 02:30:03 am"
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Satoshi Asami wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/1550; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) > To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freefall.FreeBSD.org, tli@jnx.com > Cc: Subject: Re: gnu/1550: "make install" needs to know how to update /usr/local/info/dir > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:25:16 -0700 (PDT) > > * If a port installs info-style documentation in /usr/local/info, it > * should update /usr/local/info/dir so that there's an index to it. > > I agree. But how? ;) > > This has been discussed before, and no solution came up. The closest > (I think) was the idea to write a utility to add to and delete entries > from dir safely. Something that takes arguments like "section name", > "info file name" and "comment". (And it created the section if it > doesn't exist, etc....) There's a utility called gen-dir-node (hope I got it right) in the texinfo distribution. It requires the `right' layout for the info files (don't ask me about details currently, I'd have to take a look myself). We should probably move texinfo to src/contrib anyway ... As an aside: can mtree be persuaded to install a link localdir->dir in /usr/local/info when run in the install target? tg
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