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WWW: tar.file incolplete in http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/


From: Jeanne Rasata
Subject: WWW: tar.file incolplete in http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:39:21 -0400 (EDT)
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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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