Changeset 554b366 for chapter06/texinfo.xml

Timestamp:

11/17/2003 04:03:27 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

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Children:

5a4b3da

Parents:

d0dfce4

Message:

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

File:

• chapter06/texinfo.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/texinfo.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
 </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>