Re: INFOPATH not working

[Karl Berry]

Hi Fred,

Sorry for the delayed reply.

       PROMPT> ls /opt/texinfo/info

I believe the ultimate problem is that there is no dir file in this
directory according to your ls.  Without a dir file, info can't find
anything (it doesn't just try the filename, although perhaps it should).

So, if you do something like this to create the dir file:
cd /opt/texinfo/info
for f in info info-stnd texinfo; do install-info $f; done

And then export INFOPATH=/opt/texinfo/info (not sure if the trailing /
hurts anything, but I recommend leaving it off), I think it will find
those files and not look anywhere else.  That's what it looks like from
the code and my experiments, anyway.

-d /some/directory will also just look for /some/directory/dir, else
it's effectively ignored.
 
Hope this helps ...

karl