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authorGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-17 04:03:27 +0000
committerGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-17 04:03:27 +0000
commit554b3660c95e80522befbb3ad5ab25bee047718a (patch)
tree7d01e26593281923ae3c7b372a5575a7925905a9
parentd0dfce439ef2f3bfcd88ab9e69e6ad1956dfcd77 (diff)
Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Added note about how to recreate the /usr/share/info/dir file if needed. Closes Bug 485.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3108 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter06/texinfo.xml14
-rw-r--r--index.xml4
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 34ed1827c..643c77ec3 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>November 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Added note
+about how to recreate the /usr/share/info/dir file if needed. Closes Bug
+485.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>November 14th, 2003 [greg]: Removed unnecessary Ncurses
Vsscanf Patch. Closes Bug 704.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
index a3d5cadd2..152dbb033 100644
--- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml
+++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ makefile variable holds the location of the root of your TeX tree if, for
example, you plan to install a TeX package later on.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+<para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of
+menu entries. The file is located at <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename>.
+Unfortunately, due to occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages,
+it can sometimes get out of step with the Info manuals actually installed on the
+system. If ever you need to recreate the
+<filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file, the following optional commands
+will accomplish the task:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cd /usr/share/info
+rm dir
+for f in *
+do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null
+done</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml
index 5eeee4560..0958a69ad 100644
--- a/index.xml
+++ b/index.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
"/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
-<!ENTITY version "CVS-20031115">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "November 15th, 2003">
+<!ENTITY version "CVS-20031116">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 16th, 2003">
<!ENTITY milestone "5.1">
<!ENTITY nbsp " ">