A simple invocation on the attached texi source gives:
texi2dvi t.texi
/opt/csw/bin/texi2dvi: local: not found
/opt/csw/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS: not found
Using explicitely the Bash command interpreter works:
bash texi2dvi t.texi
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t.texi (/opt/csw/share/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2005-01-30.17]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions,
(/opt/csw/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) (./t.aux) [-1] )
Output written on t.dvi (1 page, 228 bytes).
Transcript written on t.log.
This is probably a "linuxism" as:
/bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
My suggestion is to patch all the shell scripts in your package and make it depend on CSWbash
See the enclosed test case
t.texi [^] (741 bytes) 2009-04-03 13:14 
