Re: txinfo trivial failures

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Patrick Welche:
| On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:25:29AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
| > >>> "Patrick" == Patrick Welche <address@hidden> writes:
| > 
| >  Patrick> txinfo3.test txinfo13.test txinfo16.test txinfo18.test 
txinfo22.test
| >  Patrick> fail for me just because texput.log is left behind..
| > 
| > Weird, could you send the full logs?  I wonder why this file is
| > created at all.  It seems to me it should only exists when TeX
| > has been run without any file argument.
| 
| Logs are rather long.. I checked for strange TEXINPUTS variables, but here's
| a simple bit of what happens for me:
| 
| % ls
| zardoz.texi
| % cat zardoz.texi
| \input texinfo
| @setfilename zardoz.info
| @settitle Zardoz
| @node Top
| Hello walls.
| include version.texi
| @bye
| % texi2dvi zardoz.texi
| fflush error on stdout
| This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
| (/tmp/t2d28901/src/zardoz.texi
| Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded.
| (/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
| Loading texinfo package [Version 2.196]: Basics, fonts, page headings, tables,
| indexing, sectioning, toc printing, environments, defuns, cross reference,
| and turning on texinfo input format.) [1] )
| Output written on zardoz.dvi (1 page, 240 bytes).
| Transcript written on zardoz.log.
| % ls
| texput.log   zardoz.cp    zardoz.fn    zardoz.log   zardoz.texi  zardoz.tp
| zardoz.aux   zardoz.dvi   zardoz.ky    zardoz.pg    zardoz.toc   zardoz.vr
| % cat texput.log
| This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) (format=tex 98.7.5)  21 AUG 2003 
20:18
| **--help
| 
| ! Emergency stop.
| <*> --help
|           
| End of file on the terminal!
| 
| No pages of output.
| %
|
| zardoz.dvi is fine. Maybe something wrong with my
| texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.6) 1.23? But what?! Do you not have a texput.log?

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).
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz