Re: compile erros (tex)

[Harry Putnam]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Harry Putnam <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>   This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
>>   (/usr/local/tramp/texi/tramp.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
>>   Loading texinfo [version 1999-09-25.10]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
>>   tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, 
>> macros,
>>   cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
>>   and turning on texinfo input format.) (tramp.aux)
>>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>>   l.70 @copying
>
> Do you have another version of texinfo.tex on your system, perhaps
> one that comes from the texinfo-4.2 package that you have installed?
>
> 1999 seems quite old, I guess it's not from Texinfo 4.2 :-)


That package:
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
 comes from tetex-1.0.7-57.1 which is the latest version.

There is no texinfo.tex contained in the rpm package texinfo-4.2-5
Must be using one from automake
 find /usr/share/automake* -name texinfo.tex
  /usr/share/automake-1.4/texinfo.tex
  /usr/share/automake-1.5/texinfo.tex
  /usr/share/automake-1.6/texinfo.tex

Still doesn't work even after uninstalling the rpm version of texinfo
and installing it from latest sources.  Still grabbing the wrong
texinfo.tex
Finally overwrote /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
with /usr/local/src/texinfo-4.2/doc/texinfo.tex

Now it works.  Seems lots of confusino for the sake of political
correctness :-).