Re: Installing info files

["J. Johnston" <jjohnstn at cygnus dot com>]

"Russ.Shaw" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using linux on a pc.
> 
> I did "make info" and "make install-info" in a newlib build directory,
> and it installed various files such as configure.info etc into
> /usr/local/info. However, i can't get them to display in the info reader.
> Also, i can't find anything such as an INFOPATH environment variable.
> 
> Is there another step to make these files known to the info reader?
> 

What version of info are you using?

The following is the help text for the default /usr/bin/info on my linux installation which
is version 3.12h:

=============================================================================================

Usage: info [OPTION]... [INFO-FILE [MENU-ITEM...]]

Read documentation in Info format.

Options:
  --directory=DIR          add DIR to INFOPATH.
  --dribble=FILENAME       remember user keystrokes in FILENAME.
  --file=FILENAME          specify Info file to visit.
  --index-search=STRING    go to node pointed by index entry STRING.
  --node=NODENAME          specify nodes in first visited Info file.
  --output=FILENAME        output selected nodes to FILENAME.
  --restore=FILENAME       read initial keystrokes from FILENAME.
  --show-options, --usage  go to command-line options node.
  --subnodes               recursively output menu items.
  --vi-keys                use vi-like and less-like key bindings.
  --help                   display this help and exit.
  --version                display version information and exit.

The first argument, if present, is the name of the Info file to read
(if none, info searches for a `dir' file along INFOPATH).
Any remaining arguments are treated as the names of menu
items in the initial node visited.

============================================================================================

Note that it uses INFOPATH, but you can add any directory via the --directory=DIR option.
You should be able to do:

info --directory=/usr/local/info -f libc.info


-- Jeff Johnston (Red Hat Inc.)