Re: INFOPATH never respected

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:59 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>     export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:"/home/andrew/info"
> 
> INFOPATH is still supported and still works AFAIK.  But there has to be
> a dir file in the directory (ie, /home/andrew/info/dir in this case) for
> info to do anything with it.
> 
> The easiest thing to do is copy an existing dir file, or, if you don't
> have one, there is a dir-example file in the Texinfo source
> distribution.  (It doesn't matter if there are extra entries in the dir
> file that don't have info files anywhere.)

Isn't running install-info easier than both of the above alternatives?