doomemacs / doomemacs/core

Suspicious state from syntax checker texinfo

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Description

### What did you expect to happen?

Be able to open emacs.texi without errors

### What actually happened?

Opened emacs.texi from a git archive using M-x dired. Got a error stating:
`Suspicious state from syntax checker texinfo: Flycheck checker texinfo returned (file-error "Writing to process" "Bad file descriptor" #), but its output contained no errors: -: No such file or directory
Try installing a more recent version of texinfo, and please open a bug report if the issue persists in the latest release. Thanks!`

### Describe your attempts to resolve the issue

1. Checked FAQ and bug tracker
2. Read the documentation
3. Checked Discourse
4. Issue runs on latest commit of Doom Emacs
5. Checked how to debug issues
6. Ensured Texinfo is the latest version
7.

### Steps to reproduce

1. Install Emacs-mac through homebrew
2. Run `git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
~/.emacs.d/bin/doom install` in terminal
3. Selected Y to all options
4. Downloaded emacs-27.2.tar.gz from [Savannah](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/snapshot/emacs-27.2.tar.gz)
5. Unzipped using Archive Utility
6. Open emacs.texi using `M-x dired`

### System Information

https://pastebin.com/0etciUjh

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