Re: libtoolize docs

[Ross Boylan]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:58 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> * Ross Boylan wrote on Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:44:03PM CET:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:02 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:07:16PM CET:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:50:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > > > Does libtoolize have its own info files?  So far, all I've seen is the
> > > > > relatively brief description of the man page and libtool's info pages.
> > > > 
> > > > nope ... it does have its own subsection in the libtool info files 
> > > > though
> > > 
> > > Right.  And
> > >   info libtoolize
> > > should get you right to the correct section of those info files.  If it
> > > doesn't, please state installed Libtool version, its $prefix, $INFOPATH,
> > > and whether there exists an updated `dir' file in $prefix/share/info,
> > > alongside with libtool.info.
> > > 
> > info libtoolize gets me the man page, which says it was written
> > specifically for Debian.  This is almost identical to the page on
> > libtoolize in the libtool info pages.
> > libtool                             1.5.20-2
> > 
> > libtool --config doesn't give me $prefix or $INFOPATH.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I was being too short-worded.
> If `which libtoolize` is /usr/bin/libtoolize, then $prefix is /usr.
> On the other hand, INFOPATH is an environment variable that changes
> the behavior of the 'info' program.  You can tell it where to look
> for info pages, much as with manpages and MANPATH.
I'm not sure if this matters, but prefix is /usr/bin.
INFOPATH is empty, but clearly the info file is in the standard place
for such things.

> 
> > I do have
> > /usr/share/info/libtool.info.gz.  However, it is not part of the libtool
> > package, and I suspect I put it there myself.
> 
> libtool-doc maybe?
Yes.  Sorry, I was so sure the info file wasn't in a package that I
didn't do a reverse check.
> 
> > I suspect things are reasonable, given the production of local
> > documentation on Debian and the fact that Debian tends not to ship info
> > files because of licensing issues.
> 
> Yes, I only now (on Debian) noted this myself.  You can still get it
> with
>   info libtool 'Invoking libtoolize'
Yes, that works here too.