Re: Problem with texinfo and bash installing info/dir

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Brian Cameron wrote:

> Is there
> an easy way to build a single "info/dir" file from multiple "info/dir"
> files that are installed in different places?  In other words I have
> bash installed in one directory and texinfo installed in another directory.
> I would like to build a info/dir directory that contains symbolic links
> pointing to the various files in both the texinfo and bash info directories.

You don't need this with Info.  Simply make sure all those `info' 
directories are listed in the INFOPATH environment variable, separated by 
colons.  The Info reader will then automatically create a single DIR 
node out of all those DIR files, when it starts.