On 15 July 2015 at 00:23, Norbert Preining <norb...@preining.info> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that > info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems: > In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory: > /usr/share/info/emacs-24/emacs.info.gz > > The respective dir entry looks like > * Emacs: (emacs-24/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text > editor. > but trying to enter into that node gives: > emacs-24/emacs: No such file or directory > The dir-entry was added with > install-info /usr/share/info/emacs-24/emacs.info.gz > /usr/share/info/dir > Do we do something wrong here?
I didn't know that this was supposed to work. I saw this usage somewhere else a few weeks ago and I intended to look at it, so I guess if it's being done we should support it. >> "info emacs" and "info emacs-24/emacs" can no longer find the Emacs >> manual (provided by emacs24-common-non-dfsg). "info emacs-24/emacs" is now interpreting "emacs-24/emacs" as a path relative to the current directory, because it has a slash in it. Given that there is a dir entry for "Emacs" "info emacs" should work once the other problem is resolved. It's obviously useful to be able to access documentation for multiple installed versions of a manual at once. So I'm concerned that without separate dir entries (like "emacs-24", "emacs-25", "emacs-26"), running info emacs-24/emacs info emacs-25/emacs info emacs-26/emacs won't work. I'm not sure if anyone relied on this, but if they did, I don't know what to suggest, other than use separate dir entries. Another idea is to make sure all the directories containing Info files are in INFOPATH, and invoke with "info --all emacs". A possible solution could be to copy the --program-prefix flag supplied by Autoconf, which is used for this problem with executable files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
