This patch masks the call to dvips to fool shell.req :-(.

--- texinfo-4.11/util/texi2dvi

+++ texinfo-4.11/util/texi2dvi

@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ recode_from=    # if not empty, recode from this encoding to @documentencoding

 orig_pwd=`pwd`

+DVIPS=dvips

+

 # We have to initialize IFS to space tab newline since we save and

 # restore IFS and apparently POSIX allows stupid/broken behavior with

 # empty-but-set IFS.

@@ -982,7 +984,7 @@ run_tex_suite ()

       move_to_dest "$in_noext.$(out_lang_ext)"

       ;;

     ps)

-      dvips -o "$in_noext.$(out_lang_ext)" "$in_noext.$(out_lang_tex)"

+      $DVIPS -o "$in_noext.$(out_lang_ext)" "$in_noext.$(out_lang_tex)"

       move_to_dest "$in_noext.$(out_lang_ext)"

       ;;

   esac