Re: texi2dvi is a bash script, not a Bourne shell script

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The version in 6.1

% head ./util/texi2dvi
#! /bin/sh
# texi2dvi --- produce DVI (or PDF) files from Texinfo (or (La)TeX) sources.
# $Id: texi2dvi 6991 2016-02-06 12:16:13Z gavin $

still fails on Solaris.  I get no output at all on real inputs, just a 
status of 1, but commenting out

# No failure shall remain unpunished.
set -e

or using #! /bin/bash allows this to proceed.

Adding set -x shows the script quits at

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tex_cmd=pdflatex --file-line-error
tex_cmd=pdflatex --file-line-error
+ test -n
+ test -n
+ test -n
+ false
+ false
tex_cmd=pdflatex --file-line-error '\input'
catcode_special=maybe
tex_cmd=pdflatex --file-line-error '\input' ./openout.tex
+ verbose /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: running pdflatex --file-line-error 
'\input' ./openout.tex ...
+ false
+ rm -fr openout.log
+ eval pdflatex --file-line-error '\input' ./openout.tex

and it is too long since I debugged shell scripts to spend even more 
time on this.


On 04/07/2015 07:30, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 03/07/2015 22:49, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On 1 July 2015 at 08:49, Prof Brian Ripley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Solaris 10, installed from the sources:
> > >
> > > swift-9% texi2dvi --version
> > > texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 6.0) 6363
> > >
> > > and any invocation gives
> > >
> > > /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS: not found
> > >
> > > The head of the script is
> > >
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > # texi2dvi --- produce DVI (or PDF) files from Texinfo (or (La)TeX)
> > > sources.
> > > # $Id: texi2dvi 6363 2015-06-26 12:36:32Z gavin $
> > >
> > > and /bin/sh is a Bourne shell derived from AT&T Unix.
> >
> > Hello Brian,
> >
> > I have uploaded a new version of the script at
> > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/. Maybe you could try it and report any
> > other problems you have with it?
>
> I am about to leave for vacation, but on a quick test no problems emerged.
>
> > Best regards
> > Gavin


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Brian D. Ripley,                  address@hidden
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford