Problems with snapshot 20000412

[Eli Zaretskii]

> It doesn't appear to affect the build

Really?  Did you try renaming your system-wide texinfo.tex (somewhere
in the TeX installation tree)?

The special setting of TEXINPUTS before invoking TeX-related commands
is there to make sure that the manual is produced using the specific
version of texinfo.tex that was used by the maintainer(s), because
another version of texinfo.tex might produce incorrect results or even
fail.  If you have the same or compatible version of texinfo.tex in
another place where TeX can find it, you won't see the problems caused
by TEXINPUTS being set incorrectly.