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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:53:36PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> 
> > export TEXINPUTS=/usr/local/share/texmf:$TEXINPUTS
> Error Occurs
> 
> hagbard@fuckup:
> + ~/01cuneus/tdr/06ch
> pdfetex 06a-amcoh.texi
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) 
> (preloaded format=pdfetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./06a-amcoh.texi
> ! I can't find file `texinfo'.
> l.2 \input texinfo

I did some testing, and it seems that it needs to be

export TEXINPUTS=/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo:$TEXINPUTS

Alternatively, if /usr/local/share/texmf/ is already in the path but
with the ls-R file indexing (I think that this is shown by 
!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex// being in
kpsewhich -show-path=tex
), it should be possible to run, as root
mktexlsr /usr/local/share/texmf/

To test which texinfo.tex is found, it seems that 
kpsewhich texinfo.tex
is the best to use, and 
kpsewhich -all texinfo.tex
shows all the files found.

-- 
Pat