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Subject:    WWW: tar.file incolplete in  http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
From:       "Jeanne Rasata" <rms-assist () gnu ! org>
Date:       2009-08-28 19:39:21
Message-ID: 33940.66.92.78.11.1251488361.squirrel () webmail ! fsf ! org
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Subject: 	WWW: tar.file incolplete in
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
Date: 	Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:58:27 +0300
To: 	gnu@gnu.org
From: 	Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual

There is bashref.info.tar.gz which is not in installable state. Please
see discussion with the Bash maintainer at:

> [ See below for excerpt ]
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/13338

Possible solutions:

1. Provide proper Makefile 'make prefix=/usr/local install'
2. Change the bashref.info as suggested in patch
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/13338

Jari

> >> Jari Aalto wrote:
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 502 root 5429 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 502 root 301063 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info-1
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 502 root 128001 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info-2
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 117639 2009-03-16 18:40 bashref.info.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> $ install-info --debug bashref.info /usr/local/share/info/dir
> >> Why did you do this, instead of `make install' in the doc subdirectory?
> >> The Makefile creates bash.info from bashref.info and installs it with
> >> the correct name and index.
> >
> > According to:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
> >
> > - Info document (120K bytes gzipped tar file).
> >
> > Downloading and install_
> >
> > wget http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz
> > tar -xf *.gz
> > ls -la
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo foo 5429 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo foo 301063 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info-1
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo foo 128001 2009-03-16 18:36 bashref.info-2
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo foo 117639 2009-03-16 18:40 bashref.info.tar.gz
> >
> > There is no Makefile; what would be the appropriate contact to fix this?

> I don't know. I didn't really have anything to do with making that
> available, or with that web site. Maybe gnu@gnu.org?




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