I get an error when trying to do TexInfo PDF output

Question

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Short-Sample-Texinfo-File

In the sample code of the above URL, using TexInfo, I am trying to output PDF, but the following error occurs.

$ makeinfo --pdf sample.texinfo
sample.texinfo:28: @menu seen before first @node
sample.texinfo:28: perhaps your @top node should be wrapped in @ifnottex rather than @ifinfo?

Is there a way to solve this problem?

Answer 1

I was also having this problem, and found an email about this issue which explains mainly that either you can put the @menu within the @ifnottex block (which I find strange that the official sample docs wouldn't), or you can run texi2pdf on the file directly by writing

texi2pdf <FILE>

which works perfectly for me, so I suppose it goes through less validation. Although again it's strange since makeinfo --pdf is supposed to just be a wrapper for texi2pdf from what I understand. texi2dvi --pdf works also.