From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:31:41 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033712047 31196 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 06:14:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, miles@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xLit-00086r-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:14:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17xMUN-0000eb-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xLgw-0001Ip-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 02:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wxh8-0007Ms-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wxh1-0007Mg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wxh1-0007MZ-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA22367; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:31:41 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8356 On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > This means that on a system which comes with an Info directory > in /usr/info, our packages will by default not install into that > directory. I thought that on such a system, whoever configures and installs GNU packages should invoke configure with --infodir=/usr/info. > I think that is somewhat of a problem. Can we find > a way to solve it? We'd need a way to find the system Info directory. The problem is actually even harder than that, since on at least some systems there are several Info directories.