missing info directory

missing info directory

[Bug Dout]

GNU emacs 23.x and 24.0.x on Windows 7.

I've downloaded the non-barebin zip files for these, as well as the
Linux .tar.gz files, and none of them have the info directory. Then I
tried makeinfo (from cygwin) but the only directory that cleanly
produced .info files from .texi was .../doc/lispintro/.

Also I am missing the etc/DOC-X file.

What can I do to rectify the situation?
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Re: missing info directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com>
> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:27:59 -0700
> 
> GNU emacs 23.x and 24.0.x on Windows 7.
> 
> I've downloaded the non-barebin zip files for these, as well as the
> Linux .tar.gz files, and none of them have the info directory. Then I
> tried makeinfo (from cygwin) but the only directory that cleanly
> produced .info files from .texi was .../doc/lispintro/.
> 
> Also I am missing the etc/DOC-X file.
> 
> What can I do to rectify the situation?

Use a different unzip utility?

I mean, I just checked 2 random zip files, and the files you are
missing are all there.

Which zip files exactly did you try, and where did you download them?

Oh, and the makeinfo stuff? forget about it: the binary distribution
already includes all the products of running makeinfo, and does not
include the original *.texi files used to produce them.

But if you are trying to use the source zip, then you need to build it
first; see the file nt/INSTALL for the details.

Re: missing info directory

[Bug Dout]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Use a different unzip utility?
>
> I mean, I just checked 2 random zip files, and the files you are
> missing are all there.

I'll be damned. Sure enough they ARE there. I use IZArc to unzip; the
problem may have been its default is to extract Selected Files, and I
didn't select any in particular, and for some reason it didn't extract
everything. When I ticked All Files everything was good. Thanks for
replying.
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