From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:32:48 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200209300340.WAA21827@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033364321 25918 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2002 05:38:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 05:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vtGR-0006jm-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17vtzx-0004hq-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:25:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vtGU-0002yZ-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:38:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vtEa-0002vr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vtES-0002tx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vtER-0002tX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA25598; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:32:48 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200209300340.WAA21827@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8243 On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > >From Richard Stallman's message: > > The dir file in /usr/local/info was installed (or updated) by > emacs-21.3.50. > > The dir file in /usr/share/info (a symlink to /etc/info-dir) came with > Red Hat 7.2. > > The dir file in /usr/info was installed by texinfo-4.2. > > This could be a problem we have to fix, an inconsistency between Emacs > and Texinfo. Maybe Emacs should install into /usr/info if it has a > dir file in it. > > Should Texinfo (and Emacs) install into /usr/share/info rather than > /usr/info? > > It is a while ago that I installed texinfo-4.2, but if I remember well > I might have overridden the place Texinfo got installed, which probably > explain the inconsistency. Right, Texinfo by default installs the Info files into /usr/local/info.