Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Luc Teirlinck wrote:

> >From Richard Stallman's message:
> 
>        The dir file in /usr/local/info was installed (or updated) by
>        emacs-21.3.50.
> 
>        The dir file in /usr/share/info (a symlink to /etc/info-dir) came with
>        Red Hat 7.2.
> 
>        The dir file in /usr/info was installed by texinfo-4.2.
> 
>    This could be a problem we have to fix, an inconsistency between Emacs
>    and Texinfo.  Maybe Emacs should install into /usr/info if it has a
>    dir file in it.
> 
>    Should Texinfo (and Emacs) install into /usr/share/info rather than
>    /usr/info?
> 
> It is a while ago that I installed texinfo-4.2, but if I remember well
> I might have overridden the place Texinfo got installed, which probably
> explain the inconsistency.

Right, Texinfo by default installs the Info files into /usr/local/info.