CVS texi2dvi and --pdf and @include

[Akim Demaille]

I have a weird behavior with the current texinfo.tex.  I tracked it
down to the following strange event.  Consider this file:

~/lectures/tiger-subject % eof assign.texi                       nostromo 13:36
: -------------------- assign.texi ----------------------
cat > assign.texi << \EOF
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename assignments.info

@macro gotw{num}
@uref{http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/\num\.htm, @acronym{GotW\num\}}
@end macro

@ifnottex
@node Top
@top The Tiger Compiler Project
@end ifnottex

@cindex GotW
@address@hidden

@bye
EOF
: ------------------------------------------------------------

It compiles cleanly into DVI, but it fails with PDF.  There are many
weird issues, not the least being that the @cindex is required to
observe the failure...

~/lectures/tiger-subject % texi2dvi --pdf assign.texi --clean    nostromo Err 1
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.texi{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/p
dftex.cfg} (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2004-03-11.15]: Basics, pdf,
(/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/plain/misc/pdfcolor.tex) fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/dvips/epsf.tex)
localization, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux)
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence

and it continues like this until

/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Missing @endcsname inserted
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Missing @endcsname inserted
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
/home/akim/lectures/tiger-subject/assign.aux:1: Undefined control sequence
(That makes 100 errors; please try again.)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on assign.log.
/home/akim/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
/home/akim/bin/texi2dvi: see assign.log for errors.


Thanks!