Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> 
> I removed the old version installed by synaptic and installed the development 
> version.
> 
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> cd ~/Admir/source/texinfo
> ./autogen.sh
> 
> cd ~/Admir/build/texinfo
> ../../source/texinfo/configure
> make
> sudo make install
> 
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> 
> Could I have missed something ?

Yes, there are specific instructions for texinfo.tex, as seen in
INSTALL:
* texinfo.tex and the other *.tex files are not installed by
  `make install', because there is no reliable way to know where to
  install them.  Instead, you have to run an additional make command
  after the normal make install:
    make TEXMF=/your/texmf install-tex
  texinfo.tex is installed in ${TEXMF}/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex, etc.



> 
> 
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 2:24 AM
> > From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@free.fr>
> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 04:12:24PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > >
> > > (./txiversion.tex
> > > ! I can't find file `texinfo.tex'.
> > > l.1 \input texinfo.tex
> >
> > Could it be because you didn't install it?  Instruction are in INSTALL.
> >
> > --
> > Pat
> >
> >