Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 7:07 AM
> From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@free.fr>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:52:44PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > Quite likely.  I compare it with how I customarily install other
> > development versions in Gnu for testing.  There seem to be many
> > considerations when installing texinfo.
>
> I think everybody agrees that having to install texinfo.tex separately
> is a pain.  However, I do not think that it is possible to do otherwise,
> as the TeX installation setup dictates what can be done, and it does not
> follow the GNU way -- I believe it predates the GNU way.  In addition
> TeX/LaTeX by itself is a very big piece of many softwares.
>
> What would be the other issues associated with texinfo installation?

Have done

sudo make TEXMF=/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin install-tex

running "/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi"
gave

--------

hagbard@fuckup:
+ ~/01cuneus/tdr/06ch
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi

/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: 37: 
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: texi2dvi: not found

It could be looking at /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi