[bug #43122] texi2dvi does not compile enough times to get toc

[Vincent Belaïche]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #43122 (project texinfo):

Hello Gavin,

First of all, I don't know why Karl could not reproduce the problem and he got
the toc complete in one texi2pdf run (equating two tex runs Under the hood).

In order to sort this bug out, what I suggest to you is the following:

* Download metafont-for-beginners.texi
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34666> and
metafont-for-beginners-macros.texi
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34667> files
* Run the following command:

rm -fr metafont-for-beginners.aux metafont-for-beginners.cp
metafont-for-beginners.fn metafont-for-beginners.ky metafont-for-beginners.log
metafont-for-beginners.pdf metafont-for-beginners.pg
metafont-for-beginners.toc metafont-for-beginners.tp
metafont-for-beginners.vr;  texi2pdf -V metafont-for-beginners.texi

* Download metafont-for-beginners.log
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34658>
* File compare the two items of metafont-for-beginners.log, the one from
compilation and the one from download.

Then there are only two possible cases:

* Either you can reproduce the problem, and then:
** the metafont-for-beginners.pdf from your compilation will have an empty
toc
** the two log files will be identical except for the compilation time on the
first line
* Or you cannot reproduce the probleù, and then:
** the metafont-for-beginners.pdf from your compilation will have a complete
toc
** the two log files will be differ a lot and the log from compilation will
show a second etex run

Please not that in my case the verbose outputs the following (vebatim parts
are output to the standard error stream):

/local/bin/texi2dvi: Processing metafont-for-beginners.texi ...
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
BIBINPUTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
BSTINPUTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
DVIPSHEADERS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
INDEXSTYLE='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
MFINPUTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
MPINPUTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
TEXINPUTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi:
TFMFONTS='.:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners:/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/.:'
/local/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `20150803' ...
/local/bin/texi2dvi: Cycle 1 for ./metafont-for-beginners.texi
/local/bin/texi2dvi: /local/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex 'catcode126=12
defnormaltilde{~}catcode126=13 let~normaltilde ' 'input'
'./metafont-for-beginners.texi' ...

_log file_

/local/bin/texi2dvi: Original xref files = 
/local/bin/texi2dvi: New xref files      = 
/local/bin/texi2dvi: Removing
/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/metafont-for-beginners.t2d
/local/bin/texi2dvi: done.
/local/bin/texi2dvi: Removing
/usr/local/projects/metafont-for-beginners/metafont-for-beginners.t2d



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