Re: Problem with texinfo and bash installing info/dir

[Brian Cameron]

Eli:

You just saved me a lot of work, and much thanks for helping me
to better understand how the packages are put together.  Apologies
for raising a false bug.

Brian


> > 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.