Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 04:25:21PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 at 1:26 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 Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 03:12:30PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > texi2dvi and texi2pdf (and texi2any, info and other installed
> > scripts/binaries) are installed classically, based on ./configure
> > options, use of DESTDIR...  So my guess is that if texi2pdf is in
> > /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/, texi2dvi is there too.
> 
> Correct, texi2dvi is there too.  Then, how am I getting this?
> 
> /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf: texi2dvi: not found
> 

You need to have /home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin in your PATH.