Howdy all! I downloaded pinfo recently because I have heard it is a better help program than man. I ran the cygwin setup program, selected pinfo and thought it ran through ok. However, when I type "pinfo", the command is not known:
$ pinfo bash: pinfo: command not found $ I went and had a look at the files inside the pinfo download: pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2. I found a readme file with the following information in it: To rebuild the package for cygwin: install pinfo-x.x.x-x-src package cd /usr/src/pinfo-x.x.x-x ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir) \ --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share' make make install-strip copy sample pinforc to /usr/share/pinfo/pinforc copy CAPITALIZEDFILES to /usr/doc/pinfo-x.x.x-x/ This is a bit confusing for me at the moment. I assumed: pinfo-x.x.x-x-src = pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 and pinfo-x.x.x-x = pinfo-0.6.6p1-1 I then ran the code above. Below is the result. Obviously I am doing something wrong - I would appreciate some help if anyone can spare the patience for a blundering user such as I. $ pwd /cygdrive/c/_oginals/cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.iasi.roedu.net%2fpub%2fmirrors%2 fsources.redhat.com%2fpub%2fcygwin/release/pinfo $ ls etc package pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 usr $ install pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 package $ cd /usr/src/pinfo-0.6.6p1-1 bash: cd: /usr/src/pinfo-0.6.6p1-1: No such file or directory $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir) \ > --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share' > make > make install-strip > copy sample pinforc to /usr/share/pinfo/pinforc > copy CAPITALIZEDFILES to /usr/doc/pinfo-x.x.x-x/ $ $ pinfo bash: pinfo: command not found Rob :) :-> :-} -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
