From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Below Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accessing own info files Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:10:22 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <873cnwwvjl.fsf@antithese.de> References: <87y95qr0ae.fsf@antithese.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042496217 20399 80.91.224.249 (13 Jan 2003 22:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YCt2-0005Ib-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:16:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YCrl-00045R-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:15:33 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09001 (Oort Gnus v0.10) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KsXsZGowu5uT86dUroH2MvO4clo= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp164-64.uni-bielefeld.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-bielefeld.de 1042496061 ppp164-64.uni-bielefeld.de (13 Jan 2003 23:14:21 +0200) Original-Lines: 43 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!news.uni-bielefeld.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108925 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5453 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5453 Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: > The easiest (for me) is just to create "dir" files from a command-line > with install-info: > > $ install-info /usr/info/as.info /tmp/dir > > on my machine will create a dir file in /tmp with a link to the GNU > assembler. > > The command install-info is documented in the texinfo documentation in > the node (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Hmmm... I am a Debian user, which is generally a good thing, but in this case it makes things less easy: Debian has got an own version of install-info, coming with dpkg. Now I tried: ~ $/usr/sbin/install-info --infodir=temp elisp/info/gnus * Gnus: (gnus). The newsreader Gnus. install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ~ $/usr/sbin/install-info --infodir=/home/mbelow/temp elisp/info/gnus * Gnus: (gnus). The newsreader Gnus. install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ~ $touch temp/dir ~ $/usr/sbin/install-info --infodir=/home/mbelow/temp elisp/info/gnus * Gnus: (gnus). The newsreader Gnus. (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden means "file or directory not found" in english)... I made a "dir" file using touch, and now install-info did run for minutes with very high load, it looks like it expected something else from the dir file. Adding an entry to my experimental dir file worked smoothly, but it didn't make it more readable for info... Should I file a bug report against the Debian install-info? Should I reinstall texinfo from sources? Or is there an easier solution? Michael -- Der hohe Anteil an Dienstreisen fällt auf. Niklas Luhmann, Die Weltgesellschaft, ARSP 1971, 8