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

[Vincent Belaïche]

>Salut Gavin,
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>My answers inserted below...
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>FYI, there is one manual which I cannot compile : texinfo manual, in the
>trunk/doc directory, I get the following:
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>$ texi2pdf --tidy -V texinfo.texi
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: Processing texinfo.texi ...
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX recorder support...
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: /local/bin/texi2dvi: running pdfetex -recorder '\input' 
>openout.tex ...
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX recorder support... yes
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>BIBINPUTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>BSTINPUTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>DVIPSHEADERS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>INDEXSTYLE='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>MFINPUTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>MPINPUTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>TEXINPUTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: 
>TFMFONTS='.:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc:/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/.:'
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `20150803' ...
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: cd 
>/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/texinfo.t2d/pdf/build
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: Cycle 1 for ./texinfo.texi
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: /local/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex -recorder 
>'\catcode126=12 \def\normaltilde{~}\catcode126=13 \let~\normaltilde ' '\input' 
>'/c/Programmes/installation/texinfo-install/trunk/doc/./texinfo.texi' ...
>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
>entering extended mode

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>/local/bin/texi2dvi: Running texindex texinfo.cp texinfo.fn
>texindex: No page number in \entry{\{ (literal \{)}{108}{\code {{\tt \char 
>123} \r {(literal \samp {{\tt \char 123}})}}}
>/local/bin/texi2dvi: texindex failed
>========================================================================================================
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>It seems that this is another bug predating the -recorder support
>change, I have not tried with reverting texi2dvi to repo latest.
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>  Vincent.

Well reverting to the original texi2dvi does not produce the bug because
anyway the orginal texi2dvi stops after the first run of TeX, not trying
to produce any index.

   Vincent.

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