bug#2791: 23.0.91; cvs emacs (on Mac) doesn't use the info files it comes with

[Glenn Morris]

Version: 24.2

"vr.sundar" wrote:

> I have Emacs from cvs built and installed locally on my Mac. ( make
> install  installs Emacs.app under <cvs-root>/nextstep) The Emacs info
> manual that shows up within this is not the manual that is in the cvs
> tree but is the  manual from my Carbon Emacs installation.
>
> I believe this is because the path Info-default-directory-list has the
> wrong directory. It lists
> <cvs-root>/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/info (and also
> a bunch of other directory but nothing else is under Emacs.app).


Thank you for the report. I am sorry no-one replied until now.

I believe this problem would occur if you had the INFOPATH environment
variable set before starting Emacs. I think this is now fixed in the
Emacs trunk.