That is surprising.
Could you introspect a working installation that works like this -------- hagbard@fuckup: ~/Admir/build/texinfo ../../source/texinfo/configure --prefix=/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo make sudo make install ~/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 3:00 AM > From: "Patrice Dumas" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status > > 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. > > > > -------- > > > > cd ~/Admir/source/texinfo > > ./autogen.sh > > > > cd ~/Admir/build/texinfo > > ../../source/texinfo/configure > > make > > sudo make install > > > > -------- > > > > 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" <[email protected]> > > > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > > > 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 > > > > > > > >
