Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>>     do "info/ginfo --file ./doc/info.info" instead to open a file with
>>     that path.)
>>
>> I believe that if the user gives a cmdline arg that is absolute or
>> "explicitly relative" (starts with one of / ./ ../, or is like
>> subdir/somename) it should be opened as the given file, and only as the
>> given file, no info directory searching.  That is obviously what the
>> user wants and expects.  Giving --file should not be required.
>>
>
> I agree. The documentation implies that this only happens for --file,
> although I agree it is desirable without --file as well, so I will
> check that this happens and will see about updating the documentation.
>
> (At the same time I will add the documentation for the feature I
> recently added, which is to search the indices of a file if following
> menus doesn't get anywhere. This was in the TODO file.)
I've made a start at the documentation but some more work is required.
I'll do more when I have time.