#18931: /opt/local/share/info/dir contains defective content --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Peter_Dyballa@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Keywords: | Port: --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment(by Peter_Dyballa@…): Replying to [comment:1 raimue@…]:

Probably related to #777. I don't know how GNU info works, so input on this topic would help to find a solution. No, that's not likely. The errors happen earlier. The INFO files created with makeinfo from TEXI files are already defective.

Once the INFO is created, it's probably installed into /opt/local/share/info. There a simple command, install-info <file.info> dir, is executed to add one or more entries and other stuff (for example a "paragraph" or INFO-DIR-SECTION name) into the dir file. The typical entries which info or GNU Emacs' info-mode display can be found between START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY in the INFO file. A possible cause could be the line \input texinfo found in the TEXI files. It should correspond to the makeinfo utility. I'd recommend to use makeinfo from the active TeX distribution: it's likely that this utility will find the proper input. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18931#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#18931: /opt/local/share/info/dir contains defective content --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Peter_Dyballa@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Keywords: | Port: --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment(by Peter_Dyballa@…): Yes! It's simply not enough to create INFO files from the TEXI files and install them in /opt/local/share/info. Without a "dir" file in this directory GNU Emacs or xinfo (or any possible other INFO file reader) won't the documentation. A final step has to be: {{{ pushd /opt/local/share/info install-info <INFO file> dir popd }}} The packages' Makefiles will have entries to install the INFO file(s) correctly. Maybe this fails in MacPorts due to the hard-linking which might leave something out or because someone decided to make it simpler to swap different versions of a software package. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/18931#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS