Re: texinfo-4.0: Crashes on Red Hat 6.1 system

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Dave Gillespie wrote:

> I added "localdir" as a home for locally added files, so that the
> main "dir" could be left intact from the Emacs distribution.  This
> helps a lot when it comes time to install a new version of Emacs.
> As I recall, RMS invented a different mechanism to solve the same
> problem.

The current solutions for this include:

  (1) put your local DIR file in a separate directory, and add that
      directory to INFOPATH;
or
  (2) run install-info to add your local items to the main DIR menu.

Are these two (of which the first is obviously the more convenient)
good enough?