Re: BOUNCE pdftex@tug.org: Non-member submission from ["Derek R. Price" <derek.price@openavenue.com>]

[Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>]

"Derek R. Price" <derek.price@openavenue.com> writes:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > owner-pdftex@tug.org writes:
> >  > Assuming I have a texinfo.tex & a pdftexinfo.tex, both in '.', is there
> >  > some command that will allow 'texi2dvi foo.texi' and 'texi2dvi --pdf
> >  > foo.texi' to each find the appropriate texinfo.tex?
> >
> > surely the simpler answer is to put pdftexinfo.tex into the
> > texmf/pdftex tree, and call it texinfo.tex?
> 
> Actually, yeah, and that was my solution, but I was trying to help out the
> Automake folks who got me into this mess in the first place.  :)
> 
> Basically, the issue is that the GNU coding standards state that the
> texinfo.tex you built your docs with should be included with a source
> distribution so that an end user is sure to be able to build your docs too.
> So Automake attempts to force this issue and copy its texinfo.tex into any
> directory where docs are built unless it is overridden.  Unfortunately, if
> you are attempting to build both PDFs and other types of output in the same
> directory from the same source files, this would disable either the building
> of PDFs or it would disable everything else.

Actually, new versions of texinfo.tex from ftp.gnu.org seem to not
need a special pdftexinfo.tex.

- Hari
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