texinfo [version 2002-12-26.16] problem with Bison 1.875 manual

[Paul Eggert]

A Bison user reports that he can't build its Postscript documentation.
It appears to be a problem with the way that texinfo.tex handles the
following pattern:

   @ifset documentparam
   ...
   @deffn {Directive} %parse-param @address@hidden@}
   ...
   @end deffn
   ...
   @end ifset

Here's how I reproduced the problem on a Debian GNU/Linux box
that has texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.2) 0.51 installed:

   wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-1.875.tar.gz
   tar xzf bison-1.875.tar.gz
   cd bison-1.875
   ./configure
   cd doc
   make bison.ps

The last command generated the following output:

TEXINPUTS="../config:$TEXINPUTS" \
MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /tmp/src/bison-1.875/config/missing --run makeinfo   -I .' \
texi2dvi `test -f 'bison.texinfo' || echo './'`bison.texinfo
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(/tmp/src/bison-1.875/doc/bison.texinfo (../config/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2002-12-26.16]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) (./version.texi)

WARNING: for users of Unix TeX 3.0!
This manual trips a bug in TeX version 3.0 (tex hangs).
If you are running another version of TeX, relax.
If you are running Unix TeX 3.0, kill this TeX process.
 Then upgrade your TeX installation if you can.
 (See ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/TeX.README.)
If you are stuck with version 3.0, run the
 script ``tex3patch'' from the Texinfo distribution
 to use a workaround.

[1] [2] [-1] [-2] (Introduction)
Underfull \hbox (badness 3179) in paragraph at lines 315--318
address@hidden Bison was writ-ten pri-mar-ily by Robert Cor-bett; Richard 
Stall-man 
made it
(Conditions for Using Bison) [1] [2] (./gpl.texi (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE)
[3] [4]
Underfull \hbox (badness 2368) in paragraph at lines 66--66
address@hidden TERMS AND CON-DI-TIONS FOR COPY-ING, 
[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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 address@hidden Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
02111-130
7, USA.[] 

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 address@hidden Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 
`sho
w w'.[] 
) Chapter 1 [10] [11] [12]
Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [13] [14] [15] [16]
[17] [18]
Overfull \hbox (14.94176pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 849--849
 []  @texttt #if __STDC_VERSION__ < 199901 && ! defined __GNUC__ && ! defined i
nline[] 
[19] [20] Chapter 2 [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]
[32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
Underfull \hbox (badness 3240) in paragraph at lines 2134--2138
address@hidden The func-tion @texttt yylex[] @textrm must now rec-og-nize 
vari-ables
, nu-meric val-ues, and the
[39] Chapter 3 [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51]
[52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] Chapter 4 [60]
! Undefined command address@hidden deffn'.
@next ...age {Undefined command address@hidden @endthing '}
                                                  @else @unmatchedenderror @...
l.3922 @end deffn
                 
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