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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: build from source
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 14:27:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YAgAqENKu5CuqzbjpKX8HP++44mk7Njmi=Z13J-8Ga4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dfbee91-257f-4e38-8a91-568dbf1d86fd@eastlink.ca>

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 3:08 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2024-02-02 08:14, Ray Andrews wrote:
> > If the programme install-info is available, "make install.info" will
> >
> > insert an entry in the file "dir" in the same directory as the info ...
> >
> Weeell, all my info files are in '/usr/share/info' and they end in .gz

That would be from your OS distribution zsh package.

> New zsh info files are in
> '/usr/local/share/info' all by themselves and they are viewable.

The default install path for packages NOT provided by the OS vendor is
under /usr/local, yes.

> ( .gz = zipped yes?  So info is happy either way it seems).

Using "gzip" (GNU zip) rather than "zip", yes.

> ... shows 5.9 version.  Funny thing is that 'dir' in '/usr/share/info'
> has been updated so it would seem that it's anticipating an update to
> the main info tree, but all the files are old.  Is there a manual fix
> for this?

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPath

The "info" program should recognize the equivalent.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-03 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-01 22:31 Ray Andrews
2024-02-01 23:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-02  1:36   ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-02  2:08     ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-02 16:14       ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-02 17:08         ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-02-02 18:13           ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-02 23:06         ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-03 22:27           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2024-02-03 23:42             ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-04  1:26               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-04  2:00                 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-02  6:00     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-02 16:30       ` Ray Andrews

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