Re: Problems with snapshot 20000412

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't appear to affect the build
> 
> Really?  Did you try renaming your system-wide texinfo.tex (somewhere
> in the TeX installation tree)?

Hmm, ok, yes point taken :-)

> The special setting of TEXINPUTS before invoking TeX-related commands
> is there to make sure that the manual is produced using the specific
> version of texinfo.tex that was used by the maintainer(s), because
> another version of texinfo.tex might produce incorrect results or even
> fail.  If you have the same or compatible version of texinfo.tex in
> another place where TeX can find it, you won't see the problems caused
> by TEXINPUTS being set incorrectly.

Its already been reported:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-automake/1999/msg00007.html

and the follow up:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-automake/1999/msg00019.html

claims:

> > TEXINPUTS should be a list of directories.
> 
> Yup, this has been fixed in the CVS tree for quite some time.

I'll double check my automake tools.

	Andrew