Re: [help-texinfo] error building pdf docs, everything fine with info html dvi ps

[Karl Berry]

      It  is  my   understanding  that  the  "texinfo.tex"  file
    installed by Automake is the very latest from:

True.  Usually that is not the case, but at the moment it is.  (It won't
be after I fix this bug.)

  This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)

That version of pdftex is many years old.  Apparently you're the first
person to try the new texinfo.tex with such an old tex.

  /home/marco/src/devel/scheme/vicare/doc/vicare.texi:249: Undefined
  control sequence.  @txiescapepdf

Can you try changing the one line as below and see if that does the job?

Thanks,
Karl

--- texinfo.tex.~1.367.~        2012-05-16 16:35:40.000000000 -0700
+++ texinfo.tex 2012-06-05 12:49:55.000000000 -0700
@@ -1119,3 +1119,3 @@ where each line of input produces a line
 \def\txiescapepdf#1{%
-  \ifx\pdfescapestring\relax
+  \ifx\pdfescapestring\thisisundefined
     % No primitive available; should we give a warning or log?