bug#2791: 23.0.91; cvs emacs (on Mac) doesn't use the info files it comes with

bug#2791: 23.0.91; cvs emacs (on Mac) doesn't use the info files it comes with

[vr.sundar]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have Emacs from cvs built and installed locally on my Mac. ( make
install  installs Emacs.app under <cvs-root>/nextstep) The Emacs info
manual that shows up within this is not the manual that is in the cvs
tree but is the  manual from my Carbon Emacs installation.

I believe this is because the path Info-default-directory-list has the
wrong directory. It lists
<cvs-root>/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/info (and also
a bunch of other directory but nothing else is under Emacs.app). This
directory doesn't exist but this one does:
<cvs-root>/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info (ie - there is
no share subdirectory under Resources). Therefore I guess
Info-directory-list gets initialized wrong.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-03-23 on Sundar-Vasans-Computer.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO8859-1
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-h v I n <tab> d <tab> <return> C-h i m e m <tab>
<return> C-h v i n <backspace> <backspace> I n <tab>
<tab> <tab> d i <tab> <tab> e <tab> <return> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <help-echo> M-x
r e p <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> f i
<tab> l e <tab> b u <tab> <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
r e p <tab> o r <tab> <return>

bug#2791: 23.0.91; cvs emacs (on Mac) doesn't use the info files it comes with

[Glenn Morris]

Version: 24.2

"vr.sundar" wrote:

> I have Emacs from cvs built and installed locally on my Mac. ( make
> install  installs Emacs.app under <cvs-root>/nextstep) The Emacs info
> manual that shows up within this is not the manual that is in the cvs
> tree but is the  manual from my Carbon Emacs installation.
>
> I believe this is because the path Info-default-directory-list has the
> wrong directory. It lists
> <cvs-root>/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/info (and also
> a bunch of other directory but nothing else is under Emacs.app).


Thank you for the report. I am sorry no-one replied until now.

I believe this problem would occur if you had the INFOPATH environment
variable set before starting Emacs. I think this is now fixed in the
Emacs trunk.