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installing pinfo
- From: "Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob at optushome dot com dot au>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:12:34 +1100
- Subject: installing pinfo
Howdy all!
I downloaded pinfo recently because I have heard it is a better help program
than man. I ran the cygwin setup program, selected pinfo and thought it ran
through ok. However, when I type "pinfo", the command is not known:
$ pinfo
bash: pinfo: command not found
$
I went and had a look at the files inside the pinfo download:
pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2. I found a readme file with the following
information in it:
To rebuild the package for cygwin:
install pinfo-x.x.x-x-src package
cd /usr/src/pinfo-x.x.x-x
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir) \
--localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share'
make
make install-strip
copy sample pinforc to /usr/share/pinfo/pinforc
copy CAPITALIZEDFILES to /usr/doc/pinfo-x.x.x-x/
This is a bit confusing for me at the moment. I assumed:
pinfo-x.x.x-x-src = pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2
and
pinfo-x.x.x-x = pinfo-0.6.6p1-1
I then ran the code above. Below is the result. Obviously I am doing
something wrong - I would appreciate some help if anyone can spare the
patience for a blundering user such as I.
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/_oginals/cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.iasi.roedu.net%2fpub%2fmirrors%2
fsources.redhat.com%2fpub%2fcygwin/release/pinfo
$ ls
etc package pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 usr
$ install pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 package
$ cd /usr/src/pinfo-0.6.6p1-1
bash: cd: /usr/src/pinfo-0.6.6p1-1: No such file or directory
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir) \
> --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share'
> make
> make install-strip
> copy sample pinforc to /usr/share/pinfo/pinforc
> copy CAPITALIZEDFILES to /usr/doc/pinfo-x.x.x-x/
$
$ pinfo
bash: pinfo: command not found
Rob
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