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Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:42:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep
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On 1/28/2016 12:33 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
Future work: I can't see any reason why this script now needs an
independent existence, so it could be absorbed by the info package.
That's fine with me. There will be a new version of texinfo soon (it's
currently in pretest), so we can make the transition then. But I need
to understand the script before I take it over, and I'm confused by the
command
install-info $f /usr/share/info/dir ||
install-info --entry="* $$f ($f): $$f" $$f /usr/share/info/dir
First, what do those double dollar signs mean?
Second, why is the second line needed, i.e., under what circumstances
would it be expected to succeed after the first install-info command failed?
Thanks.
Ken