From 554b3660c95e80522befbb3ad5ab25bee047718a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Schafer Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:03:27 +0000 Subject: 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 --- chapter06/texinfo.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'chapter06') 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. +The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of +menu entries. The file is located at /usr/share/info/dir. +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 +/usr/share/info/dir file, the following optional commands +will accomplish the task: + +cd /usr/share/info +rm dir +for f in * +do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null +done + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf