[texhax] Any PPCHTeX users out there?

[Karl Berry]

    Yes, I think so. In fact, I created a symbolic link from the
    `/home/rodolfo/bin' directory to the file
    `/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex',

You should set PATH to include
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex instead.  I'm not sure if
it's relevant to this particular problem, but it's necessary for the
various mktex* programs to work.

    The log file can't help me, I'm attaching it. 

It clearly indicates a mutually recursive input loop.  If you do 
grep '(' ppchtex.log you will see the pattern.

I think the problem is simple: don't name your file ppchtex.tex.  There
is already a file by that name in the system, and ppchtex.noc (I think)
is finding yours instead of the system one.  It works when you invoke
tex from the bin dir because then it doesn't find your ppchtex.tex.  (I
think you could invoke tex from anywhere besides your home and it would
work.)

k