Re: cannot bootstrap bison from git

[Bruno Haible]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> > I don't have a file txi-en.tex on my disk.
> 
> FWIW, this file part of my Texinfo 6.6 package.  Bison distchecks cleanly on 
> my side.
> 
> $ port content texinfo | grep txi-
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-ca.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-cs.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-de.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-es.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-fr.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-hu.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-is.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-it.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-ja.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nb.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nl.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nn.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-pl.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-pt.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-ru.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-sr.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-tr.tex
>   /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-uk.tex

It's not present in my installation of texinfo-6.6, from source:

$ find /arch/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnu-inst-texinfo/6.6 -type f | grep '\.tex$' || 
echo 'none found'
none found

In fact, that "make install" command printed a warning:

WARNING: If your texmf tree does not already contain
         up-to-date versions, you must install
             texinfo.tex and txi-??.tex manually,
         perhaps in TEXMF/tex/texinfo/,
         where TEXMF is a root of your TeX tree.
         See doc/README for some considerations.
         You can run make TEXMF=/your/texmf install-tex to do this.

         You may also need to install epsf.tex in
         TEXMF/tex/generic/dvips, if your TeX
         installation did not include it.

Apparently the texinfo-6.6/doc/Makefile.am leaves it to the installer or
distributor to find out where to install texinfo.tex and txi-*.tex.

Anyway, it is a bad idea to rely on the texinfo.tex and txi-*.tex files that
are preinstalled, because these are often several years old.

Also you see that this warning above mentions texinfo.tex and txi-??.tex
together. Therefore I would think that the distribution channel we currently
have for texinfo.tex - namely through gnulib - should also be applied to
txi-??.tex. Otherwise we will be trying to use the very newest texinfo.tex
together with a years-old txi-en.tex.

Bruno