Re: Missing info and man files in standalone Emacs.app (macosx)

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> I noticed that a stand-alone Emacs application in Mac OS X doesn't contain
> the info and man pages. This is in emacs installed from the 22.0.92 and
> 22.0.93 pretest tarballs and in the cvs version. The files are
> inadvertantly removed from the built version by the make-package script.
> The following patch will solve this:

I checked in your patch.  Thanks.

> There is another problem with the info files, however. The mac startup code
> in mac.c sets the environment variable INFOPATH to the location of the info
> files in the application bundle (.../Contents/Resources/info). However this
> causes the Info-directory-list variable to get only that directory as
> value, disregarding any other info directories in the system, such as
> /usr/local/share/info. I think it would be more useful to initialize
> configure-info-directory (Vconfigure_info_directory) with that value
> instead of the environment variable.

Not having a mac, I cannot test this, so someone else will have to
work on it.