Dear David,
Nice to see a familiar name!
I have tex; it was installed via a Mac OS X installer pkg...not
fink. In fact I seem to only have the version of install-info that came
with the tex distribution. My PATH is
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin5.3/:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/cle/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin:/Users/cle/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
Is infodir= supposed to be a legal option for install-info?
CHarlie
David R. Morrison wrote:
>Hi Charlie.
>
>Has everything you mentioned been installed by fink? Do you have TeX
>installed, and how was it installed? And what is your PATH?
>
>(Diagnostic questions... trying to figure out what is up...)
>
> Best,
> Dave
>
>P.S. I'm copying [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this... It's usually
>best to conduct these discussions in public, so that others might contribute
>to or benefit from the solution.
>
>
>>Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:11:01 -0400
>>From: "Charles L. Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: A problem with dpkg and install-info
>>
>>Gentlemen,
>> I have come upon a problem with the two aforementioned packages
>>which is crippling my ability to use dselect.
>>Here is the offending error message
>>
>>install-info: unrecognized option `--infodir=/sw/share/info'
>> Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options.
>>dpkg: error processing glib (--configure):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
>>
>>Indeed, the man page for install-info lists the option --infodir=.
>>However the --help page calls this option --info-dir=.
>>The latter is correct. It seems that dpkg uses the former and this has
>>crippled my ability to maintain my software distributions.
>>Here's the version information, so we all know what I'm talking about:
>>
>>[216-158-63-228:/sw/share] cle% install-info --version
>>install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.0
>>
>>
>>[216-158-63-228:/sw/share] cle% dpkg --version
>>Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.9.20
>>(darwin-powerpc).
>>
>>Is there an environment variable on config file that I could use to get
>>around this so I can fix the large number of problems I now have?
>> Thanks,
>> CHarlie Epstein
>>
>
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