Re: Problem with texinfo and bash installing info/dir

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Brian Cameron wrote:

> I noticed a problem when I installed both GNU Texinfo and BASH in the
> same directory.  They both install the file "<install_dir>/info/dir".

Texinfo doesn't overwrite any existing DIR file, it updates it with the 
entries required for the manuals shipped with the Texinfo distribution.  
If info/DIR doesn't exist, it is created.

This is accomplished by running the `install-info' program which is part 
of Texinfo.

I don't know what does Bash do when installed, but I'd be surprised to 
learn that it doesn't run `install-info' as well, since this is the 
standard GNU practice.

So please describe in more detail how did you arrive at the conclusion 
that these two packages overwrite the DIR file produced by others.