On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:58 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Ross, > > * Ross Boylan wrote on Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:44:03PM CET: > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:02 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:07:16PM CET: > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:50:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > > Does libtoolize have its own info files? So far, all I've seen is the > > > > > relatively brief description of the man page and libtool's info pages. > > > > > > > > nope ... it does have its own subsection in the libtool info files > > > > though > > > > > > Right. And > > > info libtoolize > > > should get you right to the correct section of those info files. If it > > > doesn't, please state installed Libtool version, its $prefix, $INFOPATH, > > > and whether there exists an updated `dir' file in $prefix/share/info, > > > alongside with libtool.info. > > > > > info libtoolize gets me the man page, which says it was written > > specifically for Debian. This is almost identical to the page on > > libtoolize in the libtool info pages. > > libtool 1.5.20-2 > > > > libtool --config doesn't give me $prefix or $INFOPATH. > > Ah, sorry, I was being too short-worded. > If `which libtoolize` is /usr/bin/libtoolize, then $prefix is /usr. > On the other hand, INFOPATH is an environment variable that changes > the behavior of the 'info' program. You can tell it where to look > for info pages, much as with manpages and MANPATH. I'm not sure if this matters, but prefix is /usr/bin. INFOPATH is empty, but clearly the info file is in the standard place for such things.
> > > I do have > > /usr/share/info/libtool.info.gz. However, it is not part of the libtool > > package, and I suspect I put it there myself. > > libtool-doc maybe? Yes. Sorry, I was so sure the info file wasn't in a package that I didn't do a reverse check. > > > I suspect things are reasonable, given the production of local > > documentation on Debian and the fact that Debian tends not to ship info > > files because of licensing issues. > > Yes, I only now (on Debian) noted this myself. You can still get it > with > info libtool 'Invoking libtoolize' Yes, that works here too. _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool