Re: [bug #43122] texi2dvi does not compile enough times to get toc

[Gavin Smith]

On 18 September 2015 at 14:30, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> After mulling it over, I've come up with the following:
>
> Index: texi2dvi
> ===================================================================
> --- texi2dvi    (revision 6632)
> +++ texi2dvi    (working copy)
> @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@
>  run_core_conversion ()
>  {
>    # Backup a sorted index file
> -  test -f "$in_noext.fls" && cp "$in_noext.fls" "$in_noext.f0s"
> +  test -f "$in_noext.fls" && mv "$in_noext.fls" "$in_noext.f0s"
>
>    case $in_lang:$latex2html:`out_lang_tex` in
>      *:dvi|*:pdf|latex:tex4ht:html)
>
> ====================
>
> That is, force the *.fls file to be read from the backup directory
> because no such file will exist in the current directory.
>
> Of course, that relies on the recorder file not being created
> immediately and identified for opening for reading. That's possible,
> with what you found with MikTeX seemingly being able to read from a
> file of one filename while writing out a recorder file with exactly
> the same name at the same time. Alas, even if the format of the
> recorder file is consistent across TeX derivatives, the exact timing
> of files being opened and closed may not be.

So this doesn't work. I reordered TEXINPUTS to put the working
directory first, and the index displays as non-existent. I put in a
breakpoint in texinfo.tex in \printindex (with \show), and had a look
at the files in the directory. test.fls had already been created, but
was empty.