From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 04:07:43 +0200 Message-ID: <871szveefk.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87vax7tzhm.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475633322 30138 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2016 02:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:08:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Bostjan Vilfan , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Robert Thorpe Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 04:08:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brbdF-0006DE-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 04:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brbdD-0000h7-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brbcj-0000gq-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brbcd-00012M-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.acens.net ([86.109.99.135]:25932 helo=smtp.movistar.es) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brbcc-00011G-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:07:51 -0400 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0201.57F46070.003F, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Original-Received: from qcore (217.125.182.189) by smtp.movistar.es (8.6.122.03) (authenticated as 981711563$telefonica.net) id 57A452E302EC50B4; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:08:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87vax7tzhm.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (Robert Thorpe's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2016 01:23:49 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 86.109.99.135 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111456 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > Bostjan Vilfan writes: > >> OK. Probably THAT was the problem (no dir file). But, is there an automatic >> tool for creating the dir file? > > Install-info can be used. It works one info file at a time though. I > don't know how to do a bulk install. I've re-added help-gnu-emacs, I > expect someone there will know. If you use the 64 bits version, open a MSYS2 shell and $ cd /mingw64/share/info $ for f in *.info; do install-info.exe $f dir; done $ for f in *.info.gz; do install-info.exe $f dir; done If you use the 32 bits version, replace mingw64 with mingw32 above. > A system like MSYS2 should come with the dir file correctly constructed. Yes. Somehow the dir file is not created (or is deleted) when Emacs is installed. I need to investigate why.