I downloaded http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex into the doc/ directory of my package. Now "make pdf" works successfully and the quotes are correctly represented. However, I'd prefer not to include texinfo.tex in my package.
When I updated texinfo to the latest version (5.2), I installed it this way (i.e. as advised): cd ~/src wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz tar -xzvf texinfo-5.2.tar.gz cd texinfo-5.2 ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install make TEXMF=$HOME/texmf install-tex As a result of the last command, a file texinfo.tex was copied into ~/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex. But at this point I have 2 questions: 1) why is the texinfo.tex file from texinfo-5.2 different from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex? Maybe a version 5.13 should be created? 2) in the case where I copy myself http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex into ~/texmf/tex/texinfo/ (and I also run texhash), I encounter again the same error as before when I run "make pdf", meaning that the file is not seen, why? Sorry if these questions are already answered somewhere. I searched a little but only found answers for Mac users. ps: I'm working on a computer cluster used for scientific purpose in a university and, in such settings, it's not uncommon to have very old distributions, meaning that the admin (or each user) has to install programs by himself Timothée Flutre 2014-06-19 19:38 GMT+02:00 Karl Berry <[email protected]>: > Thanks for updating your Texinfo, but doing that does not necessarily > update texinfo.tex. And apparently it did not in your case -- at least, > that would explain why the command is not defined. > > To repeat, please try getting the current version from > http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex. You can put in the > directory with the document. > > pdftex, pdfetex, and pdfetexk are all the same thing. > > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) > > It has nothing to do with the problem, but that is almost ten years old. > Pretty impressive :). > > Best, > Karl >
