From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running external info within Emacs
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:45:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y1nbpsp8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a5zrzvdc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Apr 2023 14:37:19 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 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?
That's the question. Until now, I thought that the Msys2 conversion
magic applies to all sort of paths, not only what one has in $PATH.
> IOW, I'd take this up with MSYS2 folks.
Yes, I will ask there.
> 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?
I only added 2 directories for TeXlive and Emacs, the others are
predefined by Msys2 itself.
> Btw, any reason why you use the MSYS port of Info?
Convenience, and until now, I had no problems with MSYS ports.
> 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.)
Using your port will be complicated, I think. Your tarball contains
libiconv-2.dll and libintl-8.dll which are both part of MinGW64 as well
under /ming64/bin. Not tested, but that I'm afraid that will trouble in
$PATH in terms of who comes first.
Again, many thanks for your time.
Best, Arash
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-01 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-30 10:56 Running external info within Emacs Arash Esbati
2023-03-30 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 15:00 ` Arash Esbati
2023-03-30 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-31 6:43 ` Arash Esbati
2023-03-31 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-31 18:09 ` Arash Esbati
2023-03-31 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 10:51 ` Arash Esbati
2023-04-01 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 14:45 ` Arash Esbati [this message]
2023-04-01 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-02 17:04 ` Arash Esbati
2023-04-02 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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