Re: [Texi2html-bug] Interop bug with vindex called in macro and reading in a file in $Texi2HTML::Config::external_href

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Hi Patrice,
> 
> As soon as I remove the "while (<XREFFILE>) {..}" block from the init file, 
> everything works again. Similarly, if I remove some of the @ruser macro 
> calls, I get considerably less warnings for the index calls after that...
> 
> Am I doing something wrong (makeinfo processes the file just fine, texi2html 
> also works if I don't use any init file, so I suppose the texi file is okay)?

My investigations show that the issue is with $_ which is more or less 
global, used in the main texi2html program and clobbered in your init file.
by the while (<XREFFILE>).

I guess that the culprit is texi2html, since it shouldn't use a global
perl variable at all.

--
Pat