On Wednesday 23 June 2010 20:09:58 Timothy Rice wrote: > Still, I don't even understand why dir needs to be rebuilt. The following > explanation in the blfs book is a little unhelpful: > "pushd ... popd: This set of commands rebuilds the /usr/share/info/dir > file as the installation failed to do so." Seems clear enough to me. I did have to read the man page for install-info, which doesn't seem to say what a dir file is for, ha. Anyhow, my understanding is that the dir file is a table of contents for the info program.
> Yeah, I just don't get that. Saying "the installation failed to..." > implies that the installation ideally should, for some reason, but > doesn't. So why should it? What would be the consequences of skipping > these rebuild commands? If you skip this step I believe that you'll just be missing an entry for mysql on the default info page, but should still be able to issue 'info mysql' > Given that rebuilding dir really is necessary, should I rebuild both > /usr/local/share/info/dir and /usr/share/info/dir, or just one of them? FWIW my /usr/local/share/info/dir is empty... but I'm pretty sure that mysql only gets dumped into one folder, and that is the folder you should rebuild the dir file in. -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
