From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Running external info within Emacs Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 14:37:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83a5zrzvdc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864jq2cxsv.fsf@gnu.org> <831ql65qew.fsf@gnu.org> <86wn2y5lo6.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilei44hq.fsf@gnu.org> <86wn2xifpc.fsf@gnu.org> <83o7o92y6a.fsf@gnu.org> <86y1ncyeqj.fsf@gnu.org> <83h6u020zi.fsf@gnu.org> <86o7o77u5h.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arash Esbati Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 01 13:37:54 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1piZYO-0002ub-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:37:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piZXd-0001tu-JI; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piZXc-0001tl-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piZXc-0006kX-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:37:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=NR9a0RObbVnuY2CrY8hjTD51MuMsuHEGnCWQIHmB/QY=; b=aGtRMXmHT/jp sYGx6X5rw77M/yaqaSJaYS2uvpTwQOD1GcAswaXwwjApCI4RAv/+ltRE/52Ct7HCnvXfMf+mnYZH4 kca1Zlgk8j4Mfm6cukipLuGKpTUkk9YgRirsdGcqetXBlzu6kM4fhqHedIYhtHJkFWpxGnAinEAjE qypDRkK/55+salPgCUcxwhHkRI5p6aL9vRI9Hj9zhNJKxsYcfSrVRywkvJ4QAMbnHv4/Dgwu5Xwsy 1T/nzZZfhX+xRAOy6DRSEF8KVb9LKxSqQau+mBkDKYr5OKFluYIXBCZ1yM7AI5ZSow49rEqN0nCYV +V0WJHC1BcAAXMCXIYsniw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piZXb-0002DV-24; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:37:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86o7o77u5h.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Arash Esbati on Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:51:06 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:304989 Archived-At: > From: Arash Esbati > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:51:06 +0200 > > Now I eval (async-shell-command "info -x 2 latex2e") for debug infos: > > info: inaccessible directory C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\mingw64\local\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\mingw64\share\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\local\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\share\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \msys64\share\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \texlive\2023\texmf-dist\doc\info;C not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory \emacs\share\info not added to INFOPATH > info: adding /usr/share/info to INFOPATH > info: found file /usr/share/info/dir > info: looking for file "latex2e" > info: looking for file latex2e in /usr/share/info > info: closing - > info: No menu item 'latex2e' in node '(dir)Top' > > info seems to see the Windows style paths and chokes. If I change > "INFOPATH" to unix style and run the command like this: > > (with-environment-variables (("INFOPATH" > "\ > /C/msys64/mingw64/local/info:\ > /C/msys64/mingw64/share/info:\ > /C/msys64/usr/local/info:\ > /C/msys64/usr/share/info:\ > /C/msys64/usr/info:\ > /C/msys64/share/info:\ > /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info:\ > /C/emacs/share/info")) > (async-shell-command "info -x 2 latex2e")) > > I get: > > info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/mingw64/local/info not added to INFOPATH > info: adding /C/msys64/mingw64/share/info to INFOPATH > info: adding /C/msys64/usr/local/info to INFOPATH > info: adding /C/msys64/usr/share/info to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/usr/info not added to INFOPATH > info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/share/info not added to INFOPATH > info: adding /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info to INFOPATH > info: adding /C/emacs/share/info to INFOPATH > info: duplicate directory /usr/share/info not added to INFOPATH > info: found file /C/msys64/usr/share/info/dir > info: found file /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info/dir > info: found file /C/emacs/share/info/dir > info: looking for file "latex2e" > info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/mingw64/share/info > info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/usr/local/info > info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/usr/share/info > info: looking for file latex2e in /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info > info: found file /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info/latex2e.info > info: writing node (latex2e.info)Top... > info: writing node (latex2e.info)About this document... > [...] > File: latex2e.info, Node: Top, Next: About this document, Up: (dir) > > and it works. So your first idea about "INFOPATH transformation several > times" was correct. Is there a fix for this? WDYT? Isn't this an MSYS2 bug? Shouldn't MSYS2 Bash convert INFOPATH to the MSYS /c/foo/bar format? Or is that handling reserved only for PATH? IOW, I'd take this up with MSYS2 folks. Another alternative is to keep all the Info files in a single /usr/share/info directory, in which case you will not need to set INFOPATH at all. Why do you need so many distinct directories with Info files? Btw, any reason why you use the MSYS port of Info? A native port is available, and you could even produce it by yourself if my 32-bit port doesn't suit you for some reason. (I was wondering for a long time why the MSYS2/MinGW64 project doesn't provide a native Windows build of Texinfo, since the upstream project supports such a build since about forever.)