Problem making 2.13.2.1 documentation, related to texinfo.tex

[Andrew Koenig]

On my machine (Solaris 2.8, but you'll see in a moment why I think
that fact doesn't matter), "make dvi" fails:

make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/build-gnu26652/binutils-2.13.2.1/gas'
Making dvi in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/build-gnu26652/binutils-2.13.2.1/gas/doc'
TEXINPUTS=../../texinfo/texinfo.tex:$TEXINPUTS \
  MAKEINFO='makeinfo  -I .' `if test -f ../../texinfo/util/texi2dvi; then echo 
../../texinfo/util/texi2dvi; else echo texi2dvi; fi` as.texinfo
/usr/gnu/bin/texi2dvi: ../../texinfo/texinfo.tex: not a directory
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)

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address@hidden ), 
@texttt .pushsection[] @textrm (see
[55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] Chapter 8 [62] (c-a29k.texi [63] [64])
(c-alpha.texi [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70]) (c-arc.texi [71]
! Missing @endcsname inserted.
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                   @discretionary 
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@ifusingtt #1#2->@ifdim @fontdimen address@hidden =0pt #1
                                                 @else address@hidden 


I was all ready to start trying to figure out why the TeX stuff wasn't working
when I noticed this line in the above:

  /usr/gnu/bin/texi2dvi: ../../texinfo/texinfo.tex: not a directory

Well, that's right, it isn't.  But apparently texi2dvi expects it to
be a directory.  I'm using

  $ texi2dvi --version
  texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.4) 1.12

So it sure looks to me as if the numerous places in the makefiles that
refer to ../../texinfo/texinfo.tex should really be referring only to
../../texinfo, so that texi2dvi can find the texinfo.tex file located
therein.




                                        Regards,

                                        Andrew Koenig