Re: info DIR file: Duplicate topic entries problem

[dhruva]

Hi,
Thank you for the detailed explanation.

On 6/23/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> that case.  You are welcome to suggest changes that avoid duplicate
> entries in the DIR node, but please make sure the modified code does
> not break the use case where the binaries are installed in an
> arbitrary directory with no sources or build directory anywhere in
> sight.

The default installation on windows puts info under the emacs folder tree:
Can we use:
(if (file-directory-p)
   (concat invocation-directory "../info")
  ())

I am not sure regarding the installation on non windows. Another
approach is to have a file containing the paths to folders to be added
to Info and lisp search paths. An install script (not the install
target of makefile) used to install pre-built binaries could read that
file and generate a lisp file which can be loaded by emacs on startup,
this can have location specific folder locations.

> We already do that, see info-initialize.  That's why
> Info-directory-list doesn't include the non-existing directories.

On my system, "Info-directory-list" evaluates to "nil". Could this
indicate a problem?

with best regards,
dhruva

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