having installed gnu texinfo from macports upon using "info ls" it responds with dir: no such file or something of that nature, is texinfo supported on mac osx? -- "lalalalala! it's not broken because I can use it" http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194281&threshold=1&commentsort=0&m...
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? -- 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)
This discussion has been way above my head. Can someone just give me the bottom line: I cannot get info to work. Here is some output: hottie:~/<1>ActualSubmission% which info /opt/local/bin/info hottie:~/<1>ActualSubmission% info info info: dir: No such file or directory Can someone tell me whether this means that info is currently unusable? info coreutils ls gives a similar response, namely "info: dir: No such file or directory". Same for info coreutils. I'm not pushing for work to be done on this, because I'm sure everyone is busy on more important business, but does the previous mail exchanged on this matter mean that someone is going to try to fix this? Thanks David.Epstein@warwick.ac.uk -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/texinfo-doesnt-function-tf4596286.html#a13176994 Sent from the MacPorts - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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David Epstein
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Nehemiah Dacres
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Vincent Lefevre