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1. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00024.html 2.http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00031.html On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:18 PM, <cygwin-digest-help AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: > From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Cc: > Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:29:27 -0400 > Subject: Re: Fwd: INFO issues > On 9/2/2013 11:36 AM, Thiers Botelho wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a new user of CygWin and a former user of some Linux distros. >> >> I'm having the following issue with the 'info' command: >> >> thiers@Win-Samsung ~ >> $ info >> info: dir: No such file or directory >> >> I did some searches, but really... searching stuff where 'info' is the >> keyword is bound to, and DOES, return a lot of useless 'info'... >> >> I've searched the CygWin mailing list; what I've got is the >> not-so-clear suspicion that I need to 'install' something. Here are >> the closest leads I've got - they're 13 years old: >> >> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00005.html >> ### this guy had the same issue I'm having. >> >> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00126.html >> ### then this guy suggested running some kind of hand-made script (not >> really meaningful to me) around the install-info command (which indeed >> exists in my CygWin folder) >> >> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00184.html >> ### and this other guy suggested using command 'gen-dir-node' (which I >> didn't find in my CygWin build). >> >> So what I'd like to know is, are there any clear instructions >> somewhere about how to make the 'info' command work properly under >> Cygwin ?? > > > There's a postinstall script called 'update-info-dir.sh' which is supposed to > get run automatically by setup.exe to create the info directory. If this > didn't happen for some reason, you can run it manually. (Look for it in > /etc/postinstall.) In case you don't have it, here are the contents: > > #!/bin/bash > rm -f /usr/info/dir.info /usr/share/info/dir.info /usr/info/dir > /usr/share/info/dir > for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info; do > for f in $d/*; do > case "$f" in > *\**) > ;; > */dir|*/dir.info*) > ;; > *-[0123456789]*) > ;; > *) > install-info --quiet $f /usr/share/info/dir || > install-info --quiet --entry="* $f ($f): $f" $f > /usr/share/info/dir > ;; > esac > done > done >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Ken > Thx a lot Ken - that did it. INFO command now works properly ! And now that begs a follow-up question... After some digging around about how the post-install scripts work in CygWin, and doing some complementary testing, it seems that, every time that CygWin Setup runs, the script will be run once and then renamed with a '.done' suffix. So that, if I want the script to run every time that Setup runs, I have to remember to manually rename it back to '.sh' after each setup run, which is, erm, sub-optimal. Any ideas about getting around this repeated manual renaming ??? Thx and cheers Thiers -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
