> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:19:40 -0400
> From: Benoit Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> texi2dvi distributed with texinfo-4.0 puts my TEXINPUTS at the end of the
> search path, rather than at the beginning. Is there a reason for this?
The reason is explained in a comment within texi2dvi: it prepends "."
and the directory where the source file resides to the original value
of TEXINPUTS, because this is the Right Thing for Texinfo sources
which come with their own texinfo.tex files. Processing those sources
with other versions of texinfo.tex, even if they are newer, might
fail, since texinfo.tex is not always back-compatible.
In other words, if the maintainer of Texinfo sources distribute
texinfo.tex, it is much safer to use that specific texinfo.tex than
any other one.
> The reason not to is that I can't tell texi2dvi to use my new copy of
> texinfo.tex rather than the much older copy we have in the texmf tree.
Either copy your newer texinfo.tex in the current directory, or
(recommended) replace the old one in the texmf tree.
