Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Christopher Dimech]

Have been running the development version of texi2pdf with the following
command.

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

bin/tex/texinfo has been created and includes tekinfo.text as expected

But, I get smacked with this message

/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: 37: 
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: texi2dvi: not found

I do have texi2dvi in /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/

Looks like texi2pdf is looking for texi2dvi somewhere else.



> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 5:51 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:52:44 +0200
> >
> > > That would clobber existing installations it TeX Live etc., so it's
> > > not a good idea to do that by default, without the user's say-so.
> > >
> > > > I disagree on the additional tex/texinfo/ part of the installation
> > >
> > > I think your perspective is biased in this aspect.
> >
> > 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.
>
> What's special about Texinfo is that texinfo.tex is distributed by
> other packages as well, and only the user knows which version he/she
> wants.  Installing a wrong version can easily render the entire
> installation unusable.
>