[debbugs-tracker] bug#23611: closed (generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded)

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> generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded
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> Tue, 24 May 2016 13:38:01 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 25.0.94
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> Trying to make the pdf versions of the manuals on RHEL 7.2 fails for
> some of them (lispintro, bovine, semantic, srecode, tramp, wisent).
> It works if one uses the texinfo.tex from emacs-24. (I have often
> wondered if commits like 9c2a1a264cf418 are a good idea during
> pretesting.)
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> The errors are of the form:
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> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
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> (./emacs-lisp-intro.toc) (./emacs-lisp-intro.toc
> ./emacs-lisp-intro.toc:171: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000
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> @makevalueexpandable ->@let @value 
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> @value ->@begingroup @makevalueexpandable 
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> @value ->@begingroup @makevalueexpandable 
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> @value ->@begingroup @makevalueexpandable 
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> l.171 address@hidden {COUNT-WORDS}}{145}
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> ./emacs-lisp-intro.toc:171:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produ
> ced!
> Transcript written on emacs-lisp-intro.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make: *** [emacs-lisp-intro.pdf] Error 1
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> Reverting to the previous texinfo.tex does fix the bug, so I did that. 
> I'll send a bug report to Karl Berry about the texinfo.tex bug.
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> As I understand it, changes to texinfo.tex are fair game since it's just 
> documentation. At this point, though, it may be wise to stop updating 
> texinfo.tex from Gnulib unless the update fixes a known bug in the Emacs 
> documentation and does not cause problems like this one.
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