> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 7:07 AM > From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertu...@free.fr> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dim...@gmx.com> > Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <e...@gnu.org>, help-texinfo@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:52:44PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > > Quite likely. I compare it with how I customarily install other > > development versions in Gnu for testing. There seem to be many > > considerations when installing texinfo. > > I think everybody agrees that having to install texinfo.tex separately > is a pain. However, I do not think that it is possible to do otherwise, > as the TeX installation setup dictates what can be done, and it does not > follow the GNU way -- I believe it predates the GNU way. In addition > TeX/LaTeX by itself is a very big piece of many softwares. > > What would be the other issues associated with texinfo installation?
Have done sudo make TEXMF=/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin install-tex running "/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi" gave -------- hagbard@fuckup: + ~/01cuneus/tdr/06ch /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: 37: /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: texi2dvi: not found It could be looking at /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi
