Re: texinfo.tex not included in the autoconf distribution

[Akim Demaille]

| >>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
| [...]
| 
|  Akim> It looks like an Automake problem: in spite of the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR,
|  Akim> texinfo.tex is not looked for at its ``proper'' place.
| 
| How do you reproduce this?  The right file is read when I try.
| 
| ~/projs/src/autoconf-2.54/doc % make dvi
| TEXINPUTS="../config:$TEXINPUTS" \
| MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /home/adl/projs/src/autoconf-2.54/config/missing --run 
makeinfo --no-split  -I .' \
| texi2dvi `test -f 'autoconf.texi' || echo './'`autoconf.texi
| This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
| (/home/adl/projs/src/autoconf-2.54/doc/autoconf.texi (../config/texinfo.tex
|                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| [...]

Arg, thanks for pointing this out: I missed the TEXINPUTS parts and
looked only at the -I.  BTW, I'd like to suggest that we stop using
TEXINPUTS and move to passing -I to texi2dvi.

Aharon answered: 

        tar -xvpzf autoconf-2.54.tar.gz
        cd autoconf-2.54
        ./configure && make
        cd doc
        make dvi

but it does work as expected, so I don't know what happened to
Aharon.  Could you send more details?  Thanks!

/tmp % cd autoconf-2.54                                          nostromo 13:36
/tmp/autoconf-2.54 % ./configure                                 nostromo 13:36
[...]
/tmp/autoconf-2.54 % cd doc                                      nostromo 13:36
/tmp/autoconf-2.54/doc % make dvi                                nostromo 13:36
TEXINPUTS="../config:$TEXINPUTS" \
MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing --run makeinfo --no-split  
-I .' \
texi2dvi `test -f 'autoconf.texi' || echo './'`autoconf.texi
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(/tmp/autoconf-2.54/doc/autoconf.texi (../config/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2002-06-04.06]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) (./version.texi) [1] [2] [-1] [-2]
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