Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Christopher Dimech]

Ok,  I added the texinfo development directory to PATH.

Now getting again to the old problem of texinfo.tex

hagbard@fuckup:
+ ~/01cuneus/tdr/06ch
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken.
This may be due to the environment variable TEX set to something
other than (plain) tex, a corrupt texinfo.tex file, or
to tex itself simply not working.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) 
(preloaded format=etex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./txiversion.tex
! I can't find file `texinfo.tex'.
l.1 \input texinfo.tex
                       @bye
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:
! Emergency stop.
l.1 \input texinfo.tex
                       @bye
No pages of output.
Transcript written on txiversion.log.
/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2dvi: quitting.



> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 at 3:42 AM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
> 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.
>
>