Suprious error `ignoring stray text' with makeinfo 4.0 on Solaris

[Frank Heckenbach]

Hi.

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When I try to compile the GNU Pascal manual on a Sparc/Solaris
system with makeinfo 4.0, I get a spurious error (see below).

I can't seem to reproduce the bug on a GNU/Linux system. It also
seems to depend on the number of characters or something -- if I
remove a line in gpc.texi or move the texi files into one directory,
the problem disappears.

That's the reason why I can't easily provide a small example to
reproduce it. I've therefore put an example (229678 bytes) up on
http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~heckenb/makeinfo-bug.tar.gz
(I'll leave it there for ~2 weeks unless you tell me otherwise.)

It contains a script `bug' which does the makeinfo invocation to
produce the error. The output on the Solaris system is:

SunOS interdoc 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.0

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
../bpqstart.texi:1161: warning: ignoring stray text `xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}     
{xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}      {xxxxxxxxxx}      {xxxxxxx}' after @multitable.
../bpqstart.texi:1162: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1162: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1162: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1163: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1163: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1163: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1164: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1164: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1164: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1165: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1165: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1165: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1166: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1166: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1166: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1167: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1167: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1167: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1168: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1168: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1168: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1169: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1169: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1169: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1170: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1170: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1170: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1208: warning: ignoring stray text `xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}     
{xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}' after @multitable.
../bpqstart.texi:1209: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1210: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1211: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1212: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1213: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
../bpqstart.texi:1214: Too many columns in multitable item (max 1).
makeinfo: Removing output file `gpc.info' due to errors; use --force to 
preserve.

Frank

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