Re: deleting the temporary files produced by texi2pdf

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:19:19PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> 
> Doing as instructed fails to find files containing macros
> 
> texi2pdf --clean 06a-amcoh.texi
> 
> --------
> 
> 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.

There may be a problem with changing to a temporary directory in texi2dvi,
this should work but I would have to investigate.