last texinfo.tex fails with automake manual

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Running `make dvi' in CVS Automake, using the last texinfo.tex fetched
from cvs.berlios.de (dated 2003-12-08.17), I get the following output:

[...]
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:1251: Missing @endcsname i
nserted
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:1251: Extra @endcsname
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:1251: Extra }, or forgotte
n @endgroup
[...]
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3576: Missing @endcsname i
nserted                           
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3576: Extra @endcsname
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3576: Extra }, or forgotte
n @endgroup                       
[...]
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3819: Missing @endcsname i
nserted                           
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3819: Extra @endcsname
/home/adl/projs/cvs/automake/HEAD4/doc/automake.texi:3819: Extra }, or forgotte
n @endgroup                       
[...]                                  
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: see automake.log for errors.

Here are the relevant lines from automake.texi:

[...]
1249  This is required for programs and shared libraries that are a mixture of
1250  languages that include Fortran 77 (@pxref{Mixing Fortran 77 With C and
1251  C++}).  @xref{Macros, , Autoconf macros supplied with Automake}.
[...]
3573  Rules, , Catalogue of Rules, make, The GNU Make Manual}.}.  Automake
3574  also contains some support for creating programs and shared libraries
3575  that are a mixture of Fortran 77 and other languages (@pxref{Mixing
3576  Fortran 77 With C and C++}).
3577  
[...]
3818  Automake currently only includes full support for C, C++ (@pxref{C++
3819  Support}), Fortran 77 (@pxref{Fortran 77 Support}), and Java
3820  (@pxref{Java Support}).  There is only rudimentary support for other
3821  languages, support for which will be improved based on user demand.
[...]

It seems Texinfo does not like C++?

This last version that worked for me is the one dated
2003-12-04.17 (the first version of the cvs.berlios.de
repository), so I'll distribute this one with Automake 1.8.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz