Many info nodes missing with 'M-x info'

Many info nodes missing with 'M-x info'

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi,

when I do `M-x info' in Emacs I only have these five entries:

,----
| Programming
| * Cpp:         The GNU C preprocessor.
| * Cpplib:      Cpplib internals.
| * gcc:         The GNU Compiler Collection.
| * gccinstall:  Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
| * gccint:      Internals of the GNU Compiler Collection.
`----


When I invoke `info' in a terminal I get many, many more nodes.

,----
| (%:~)- echo $INFOPATH
| /usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4/info
`----

One interesting thing is that the files of the five nodes I get with
`M-x info' are the ones in the second/last directory of INFOPATH. But
the 262 info pages in /usr/share/info/ are ignored.

After starting info:

,----[ C-h v Info-directory-list RET ]
| Info-directory-list's value is 
| ("/usr/share/info" "/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4/info")
`----

So it got initialized with the value of INFOPATH. 

Can anybody help me? 

Much thanks in advance,
Tassilo
-- 
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It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.

Re: Many info nodes missing with 'M-x info'

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi,

this seems not to be an Emacs related problem. I have exactly the same
problems on all systems in my home net. They all have different Emacs
versions (1x two-month old CVS, 1x CVS of today, 1x 21.3.1) but all run
Gentoo GNU/Linux which I updated today.

So it is likely that one update causes this problem.

Regards,
Tassilo
-- 
Gnus gives you all the opportunity you could possibly want for
shooting yourself in the foot. 
                  - taken from the Gnus INFO page -

Re: Many info nodes missing with 'M-x info'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Tassilo Horn" <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:00:41 +0200
> 
> ,----
> | (%:~)- echo $INFOPATH
> | /usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4/info
> `----
> 
> One interesting thing is that the files of the five nodes I get with
> `M-x info' are the ones in the second/last directory of INFOPATH. But
> the 262 info pages in /usr/share/info/ are ignored.

Do you have a file named `dir' or `DIR' or `dir.gz' or some such in
the /usr/share/info/ directory?  If not, you should run the program
called install-info on the Info files in /usr/share/info/, which will
create that `dir' file.

> ,----[ C-h v Info-directory-list RET ]
> | Info-directory-list's value is 
> | ("/usr/share/info" "/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4/info")
> `----
> 
> So it got initialized with the value of INFOPATH. 

The value of Info-directory-list is okay, but Emacs needs to see a
file named `dir' in each one of these directories.  The top-level menu
of Info manuals you see when you type "M-x info" is a concatenation of
all the `dir' files in the directories that are members of
Info-directory-list.