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