From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arash Esbati Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Running external info within Emacs Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:45:07 +0200 Message-ID: <86y1nbpsp8.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> <83a5zrzvdc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39101"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 01 16:58:57 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 1picgz-000A0E-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1picgA-0002BT-35; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:58:06 -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 1picg8-0002BL-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:58:04 -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 1picg8-0000Rv-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:58:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=GTaGBoDTNjeMoo0UuBGoe2k/BPR/UU6b7/XW+WVpvis=; b=IByxNHamCYUgNwsm+R9S hiS8YSAh6or5f+Ix509s9yN1dUxaJZBSkb8K7mQN91p4uyP0g1O658zsqpv73Z+TKB2WOZG65E5L4 PHR/JRzeSQ1OxXF7HJJIBL96N1d1/hlg50ZVwVEoVIYgn9eo9Ptt+KncfV/l/qecNF/4N6R5SmZPi nFAf3Lmp/kh1qvUpaVyOu8/6IQVBzBMtMIQ+JGITKK6NnJ0kOlYgeWayq5eMqNlNaLQc/ORXOeuyk FY3LkxfiWk4elB2EFmGMgCuvlhQhR6agErmycLrEuJn4dlEe0y2ubjfV74gV78v+6E3LQGiOm7i7d Wd3K3NEymLHoww==; Original-Received: from p5b326472.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.50.100.114] helo=MUTANT) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1picg7-0001Cq-8q; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:58:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83a5zrzvdc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Apr 2023 14:37:19 +0300") 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:305011 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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