Re: [bug #45862] Texinfo manual does not compile with texi2pdf

[Gavin Smith]

On 2 September 2015 at 23:06, Vincent Belaïche
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I tried with the latest version, and it still fails. I am getting this:
>
> ======================================================================
> $ texi2pdf -V --tidy 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 `20150831' ...
> /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: Backing up xref files: texinfo.aux
> texinfo.cp
> texinfo.cps
> texinfo.fn
> texinfo.fns
> texinfo.toc
> /local/bin/texi2dvi: Running texindex texinfo.cp texinfo.fn
> texindex: No page number in \entry{\{ (literal \{)}{107}{\code {{\tt \char 
> 123} \r {(literal \samp {{\tt \char 123}})}}}
> /local/bin/texi2dvi: texindex failed
> ======================================================================

This log doesn't even show a TeX run, it's running texindex on the old
index files, very likely produced with the previous version of
texinfo.tex you had.

Please try deleting all auxiliary files, e.g. the entire texinfo.t2d
directory, and try again. There are sometimes problems when the
versions of texinfo.tex and/or texi2dvi and/or texindex change.