Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 6:40 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:20:49 +0200
> > Cc: help-texinfo gnu <[email protected]>
> >
> > Of course, but I also give you a point of thought from user perspective.
> >
> > That way, the texinfo installation could also handle the additional
> >
> > make TEXMF=/your/texmf install-tex
> > texinfo.tex is installed in ${TEXMF}/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex, etc.
>
> 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.