Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:18:26 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     Are people actually using subdirectories of elements of INFOPATH?
> 
> No.

Actually, they do: I've seen quite a few DIR files that show
subdirectories.  And even some GNU/Linux distribution (I forgot which
ones, perhaps Debian?) use subdirectories in their default directory
tree.

> I moved . to the beginning of DEFAULT_INFOPATH in info/filesys.h.
> Now info -f subdir/somefile finds ./subdir/somefile.info ok.

So how does one tell Info to find /usr/local/info/foo/bar.info when
there's a ./foo/bar.info around?

I really wish that we leave this feature alone, since I'm afraid
changing it will break those (Debian?) systems that use subdirectories
to support multiple versions of the same manual on the same machine,
and possibly other valid uses of this old feature.