Alexandre:
> Texi2dvi runs something like
> tex --help </dev/null 2>&1
> On your system it seems to print "fflush error on stdout" and create
> texput.log as a side effect. On mine it works just fine (i.e. it
> prints the help -- I have TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159).
> So I think texi2dvi should be changed to clean texput.log
> afterwards (or run tex --help in a temporary directory).
I suggest this patch, which includes another one pending for Texinfo.
Index: ChangeLog
from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Workaround a TeX bug: --file-line-error-style '\nonstopmode'
does not honor the non stop mode request.
Also, make sure 'tex --help' is run in tmp to avoid leaving
texput.log.
* util/texi2dvi (tex_help): New.
(tex_args): Instead of using '\nonstopmode', pass
'--interaction=nonstopmode'.
Index: util/texi2dvi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/texinfo/texinfo/util/texi2dvi,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -u -r1.24 texi2dvi
--- util/texi2dvi 2 Jul 2003 14:23:28 -0000 1.24
+++ util/texi2dvi 22 Aug 2003 08:15:55 -0000
@@ -491,15 +491,21 @@
;;
esac
+ # Not all TeX handle --help gracefully.
+ tex_help=`cd $tmpdir >/dev/null && $tex --help </dev/null 2>&1`
+
# If possible, make TeX report error locations in GNU format.
tex_args=
- case `$tex --help </dev/null 2>&1` in
- *file-line-error-style*) tex_args='--file-line-error-style';;
+ case $tex_help in
+ *file-line-error-style*) tex_args="$tex_args --file-line-error-style";;
esac
# Tell TeX to be batch if requested. (\batchmode does not show
# terminal output at all, so we don't want that.)
- $batch && tex_args="$tex_args ${escape}nonstopmode ${escape}input"
+ $batch &&
+ case $tex_help in
+ *interaction*) tex_args="$tex_args --interaction=nonstopmode";;
+ esac
# Expand macro commands in the original source file using Makeinfo.
# Always use `end' footnote style, since the `separate' style
