Re: Including files from parent dir

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gavin Smith [2022-09-17 18:38:16] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:13:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I need my scripts to work with "old" makeinfo as well, so that wouldn't
>> help me for the foreseeable future, I'm afraid.
>> Thanks for the explanation, tho.  It confirms that I'll have to
>> workaround the problem some other way.
> You could try using a symlink so instead of @include ../foo.texi you would
> have @include shared/foo.texi where shared was a symlink to '..'.

I changed the way I run `makeinfo` such that the cwd is the same as the
file's directory, to avoid the problem.  It's a bit inconvenient in my
case (for various technical details unrelated to Texinfo/makeinfo), but
it gets the job done :-)


        Stefan
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