I don't appreciate your comparing me with other posters to this list; it's tiring and means I have less patience for responding to your queries. The other posters have tried to help you and you should be grateful.
Comments below. On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:05:24PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > Let't try again > > This is what I have done > > 2001 cd /home/hagbard/Admir/source/texinfo > 2002 ls > 2003 rm configure > 2004 ./autogen.sh > > 2000 cd /home/hagbard/Admir/build/texinfo > 2001 ../../source/texinfo/configure > 2002 make > 2003 sudo make install > > Then I did > > sudo make TEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf install-tex This looks all correct. > Here is the consequence > > sudo make TEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf install-tex > cd doc && make TEXMF=/usr/local/share/texmf install-tex > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/hagbard/Admir/build/texinfo/doc' > test -n "/usr/local/share/texmf" || (echo "TEXMF must be set." >&2; exit 1) > /bin/bash /home/hagbard/Admir/source/texinfo/build-aux/install-sh -d > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../../source/texinfo/doc/texinfo.tex > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../../source/texinfo/doc/texinfo-ja.tex > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo-ja.tex > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../../source/texinfo/doc/epsf.tex > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex > for f in txi-ca.tex txi-cs.tex txi-de.tex txi-en.tex txi-es.tex txi-fi.tex > txi-fr.tex txi-hu.tex txi-is.tex txi-it.tex txi-ja.tex txi-nb.tex txi-nl.tex > txi-nn.tex txi-pl.tex txi-pt.tex txi-ru.tex txi-sr.tex txi-tr.tex txi-uk.tex; > do \ > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../../source/texinfo/doc/$f > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/$f; done > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hagbard/Admir/build/texinfo/doc' > > Finally I run texi2pdf, > > hagbard@fuckup: > + ~/01cuneus/tdr/06ch > texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi > /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken. > This may be due to the environment variable TEX set to something > other than (plain) tex, a corrupt texinfo.tex file, or > to tex itself simply not working. > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) > (preloaded format=etex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > (./txiversion.tex > ! I can't find file `texinfo.tex'. > l.1 \input texinfo.tex > @bye > (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) > Please type another input file name: > ! Emergency stop. > l.1 \input texinfo.tex > @bye > No pages of output. > Transcript written on txiversion.log. > /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: quitting. The first thing I would do is run pdfetex 06a-amcoh.texi and see if the same error occurs. If it does, you need to investigate TeX's search list for files. You could try running export TEXINPUTS=/usr/local/share/texmf:$TEXINPUTS and running pdfetex again. See Info node "(kpathsea)Path sources". Apparently you can also run KPATHSEA_DEBUG=32 pdfetex 06a-amcoh.texi to get more information on where files are sought. I am not very familiar with how TeX looks for files but another thing to look into is whether an "ls-R" file is up to date. Look at the contents of /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R file if it exists and check that texinfo.tex is listed there.
