From: Michael Covington
Subject: GCL config question
Date: 
Message-ID: <51ph8g$ig9@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>
I have Gnu Common Lisp installed and working except that...

(1) Every time I do a command such as (HELP 'functionname) I get the
message

(not found "dir")(not found "gcl.info")

and then I get the expected documentation. Do I have some directory name
set wrong?

(2) How do I view the manual?  I presume it is in texinfo format and
can be viewed in Emacs.  How?

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From: Nat Makarevitch
Subject: Re: GCL config question
Date: 
Message-ID: <m2ohizyksx.fsf@nataa.fr.eu.org>
Michael Covington writes:

> I have Gnu Common Lisp installed and working except that...

(using here gcl 2.2)

> (1) Every time I do a command such as (HELP 'functionname) I get the
> message
> (not found "dir")(not found "gcl.info")
> and then I get the expected documentation.

the Makefile defines a symbol "INFO_DIR" (by default /usr/info)
the gcl info files are in it
check that the "gcl.info" one is not an improper one (dangling symlink ?)

> (2) How do I view the manual?  I presume it is in texinfo format and can
> be viewed in Emacs.  How?

ensure that the `Info-default-directory-list' variable contains the name of
the directory which contain the gcl info files.
edit the "dir" file in this directory an add it a "gcl" entry, copying the
style of existing entries.
then, under Emacs, use "C-h i" and choose the "gcl" node

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