Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

That is surprising.

Could you introspect a working installation that works like this

--------

hagbard@fuckup: ~/Admir/build/texinfo
../../source/texinfo/configure --prefix=/home/hagbard/Admir/bin/texinfo

make

sudo make install

~/Admir/bin/texinfo/bin/texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi





> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 3:00 AM
> From: "Patrice Dumas" <[email protected]>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > I removed the old version installed by synaptic and installed the development version.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > cd ~/Admir/source/texinfo
> > ./autogen.sh
> >
> > cd ~/Admir/build/texinfo
> > ../../source/texinfo/configure
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Could I have missed something ?
>
> Yes, there are specific instructions for texinfo.tex, as seen in
> INSTALL:
> * texinfo.tex and the other *.tex files are not installed by
>   `make install', because there is no reliable way to know where to
>   install them.  Instead, you have to run an additional make command
>   after the normal make install:
>     make TEXMF=/your/texmf install-tex
>   texinfo.tex is installed in ${TEXMF}/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex, etc.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 2:24 AM
> > > From: "Patrice Dumas" <[email protected]>
> > > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]>
> > > Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 04:12:24PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > >
> > > > (./txiversion.tex
> > > > ! I can't find file `texinfo.tex'.
> > > > l.1 \input texinfo.tex
> > >
> > > Could it be because you didn't install it?  Instruction are in INSTALL.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pat
> > >
> > >
>
>