On 2007-10-09 14:05:08 -0500, Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
having installed gnu texinfo from macports upon using "info ls"
You need to type "info coreutils" ("info ls" doesn't work either under Debian, so I suppose that this form is not supported).
it responds with dir: no such file
I don't have this error. Instead I get the ls manpage. Your problem may be that you don't have a /opt/local/share/info/dir file, but the bug comes from the ports that install info files. On my machine, only gsl updated the dir file, with: post-install { system "install-info ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/gsl-ref.info ${prefix}/share/info/dir" } but IMHO, this is incorrect: to be correct, the dir file should be updated by post-activate (to install) and post-deactivate (with the --delete option of install-info). Is there any documentation about that? [ I had to send this mail from another account, delta.macosforge.org is blocking my mail: (host delta.macosforge.org[17.254.17.249] said: 450 <prunille.vinc17.org>: Helo command rejected: Host not found (in reply to RCPT TO command)) This machine is on a local network behind a NAT router and delta.macosforge.org cannot connect to it anyway. ] -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)