Re: ELisp Intro manual added

[Viktor Haag]

Jason Rumney writes:
 > "Richard M. Heiberger" <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > I downloaded both
 > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs-lisp-intro-2.00.tar.gz
 > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/elisp-manual-21-2.7a.tar.gz
 > > and am preparing to use them with a class.  The first thing I discovered
 > > is that neither includes the dir file.  Without the dir file, and without
 > > specifically adding the pathnames to Info-default-directory-list, C-h i
 > > won't find them.
 > > 
 > > Is there a reason why dir is not included?  If not can you add it to both?
 > 
 > The dir is not included, because usually you would put them into a
 > directory that already contains a dir file (such as /usr/local/info/
 > on Unix systems).

That may be the case, however the emacs-lisp-intro tarball at the
above address doesn't seem to contain an info dir entry in the
main info file, and thus won't get entered into the existing dir
file anyway. Here's the output of my 'make install'

 > address@hidden emacs-lisp-intro-2.00]# make install
 > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/emacs21/emacs-lisp-intro-2.00'
 > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/info
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-1 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-1
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-2 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-2
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-3 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-3
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-4 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-4
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-5 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-5
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-6 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-6
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-7 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-7
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-8 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-8
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-9 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-9
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-10 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-10
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-11 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-11
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-12 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-12
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-13 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-13
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-14 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-14
 >  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./emacs-lisp-intro.info-15 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info-15
 >  install-info --info-dir=/usr/local/info 
 > /usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info
 > install-info: warning: no info dir entry in 
 > `/usr/local/info/emacs-lisp-intro.info'
 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/emacs21/emacs-lisp-intro-2.00'

Manually adding an entry for emacs-lisp-intro once 'make installed'
seems to work just fine. I haven't been able to get a copy of the
second tarball yet; ftp.gnu.org seems to be rather busy today...


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