Re: Gnus v5.4.21 is released

[Shane Holder <holder@rsn.hp.com>]

>>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Schnoebelen <Philippe.Schnoebelen@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> writes:

  Philippe> I just installed 5.4.21 successfully.

  Philippe> One suggestion: after I compile gnus, I always install the
  Philippe> info files manually to some $(infodir).  Could it be
  Philippe> possible to have something in the Makefile so that 'make
  Philippe> install' does this automatically ?

    Don't know if this would work for you, but if you put the
directory that contains the info files for the newly installed gnus
first in your Info-default-directory-list then when you select the
menu gnus in info it will pick up the first gnus.info file it comes
across.

I set mine like:

(setq Info-default-directory-list
      (append
       (list
	(expand-file-name "~/lib/elisp/packages/gnus/texi/")
	(expand-file-name "~/lib/elisp/bbdb/")
	(expand-file-name "~/lib/elisp/dmacro/"))
       Info-default-directory-list
       (list 
	(expand-file-name "~/lib/info/")
	(expand-file-name "/usr/local/local-info/"))
       ))

    The first 3 directories don't have a dir or localdir file in them.
The directory ~/lib/info contains only a dir and localdir that
contains menu items for bbdb and dmacro (these packages don't ship
with xemacs, and thus don't have a menu entry in the default dir).
    Then /usr/local/local-info contains a dir and localdir with
entries for all the info files in that directory, none of which are
duplicated in any of the other directories.

    This way you don't have to change the dir/localdir entries unless
you add a completely new info document.  If you want the latest gnus
docs, you just put it first in the Info-default-directory-list
variable, and the menu item under
<prefix>/lib/xemacs-<version>/info/dir will select it.

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