>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:06:32 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I got the following error message when running fink's dselect on my > iMac. When I ran 'install-info --help', as suggested by the eror > message, I noticed that --info-dir=DIR is an option but not --infodir. > >There are two different install-info programs, the one that comes with >Debian and the one that comes with Texinfo. Perhaps the Debian one >(/usr/bin/install-info maybe?) will work. > >As you surmise, it would seem that just replacing --infodir with >--infodir should also work, but I don't know how to do that within a >Debian package, since I don't use Debian. I guess you could always >write a little shell script.
I wrote a little shell script which replaces --infodir with --info-dir when install-info is called, and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice. Dave > >Meanwhile, I'll add --infodir as an alias for --info-dir in the next >release, but that won't do you any good right now :(. > >Sorry I can't help more. > >karl > _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
