deleting the temporary files produced by texi2pdf

[Christopher Dimech]

Doing as instructed fails to find files containing macros

texi2pdf --clean 06a-amcoh.texi

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texi2pdf --clean 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 (/home/hagbard/01cuneus/tdr/06ch/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2020-10-24.12]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
../../.././06a-amcoh.texi:85: I can't find file `../mastaba/ramasutra.texi'.
@temp ->@input ../mastaba/ramasutra.texi

@includezzz ...and @input #1 }@expandafter }@temp
                                                  @popthisfilestack
l.85 @include ../mastaba/ramasutra.texi

(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:
../../.././06a-amcoh.texi:85: Emergency stop.
@temp ->@input ../mastaba/ramasutra.texi

@includezzz ...and @input #1 }@expandafter }@temp
                                                  @popthisfilestack
l.85 @include ../mastaba/ramasutra.texi

../../.././06a-amcoh.texi:85:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file pro
duced!
Transcript written on 06a-amcoh.log.
/usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.




> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 8:03 AM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: deleting the temporary files produced by texi2pdf
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 6:04 PM Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > I keep having to delete the temporary files produced by texi2pdf, otherwise 
> > the
> > command texi2pdf fails.
> >
> > One could think of a command option to automatically clean temporary files.
> > Is there capability for that already?
>
> Yes, run texi2pdf --clean.
>