Re: [Mingw-users] Where is info/dir in the current mingw/msys release?

[Peter J. F. I. <pjf...@ea...>]

As soon as I find a few of those very scarce round tuits, I will.  It won't
take too much time to write, so I should be able to find some time soon.

While I have your attention, can you tell us why the INFO files wind up in
different places?

Also while I have your attention, can you tell us why all the "doc"
components are not downloaded with the mingw-get-inst components by default?
As an example, I had to use "mingw-get install msys-gawk" to get the gawk
and gawkinet INFO files, even though the msys-gawk "bin" component shipped
with the mingw-get-inst package downloads.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:ea...@us...] 
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 7:37 AM
To: MinGW Users List
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Where is info/dir in the current mingw/msys
release?

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> That helped.  /usr/share/info is mapped to the msys share/info 
> directory, which is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\share\info in the "standard" 
> installation by mingw-get-inst, which is what I am running here.
>
> It seems though that the C and C++ info files are stored in 
> /mingw/share/info (C:\MinGW\share\info), so to include them in the DIR 
> file one has to use install-info to add files from both directories 
> and set INFOPATH to specify both directories:
>
> export INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/mingw/share/info
>

Care to write a HOWTO on the wiki?

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MinGWiki_Pages

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Earnie