Re: problem with texi2dvi from texinfo 6.1

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Kurt,

Is the issue that texi2dvi does not make enough runs?

Could you send also a minimal example of Rd2.tex, I could then make a
trial on my machine to see if I can reproduce the issue ....

   Vincent.

Le 22/02/2016 22:19, Gavin Smith a écrit :
> The log files you sent help a bit. They contain lines like:
>
>     Package hyperref Warning: Rerun to get /PageLabels entry.
>
> This explains why no "New xref files" messages are being printed by
> texi2dvi: the function xref_files_changed in texi2dvi sees that text
> in the log files and doesn't look in the log files. I don't have those
> lines in my log files (maybe due to different versions of packages),
> so what happens for me is different.
>
> I still don't know where exactly texi2dvi is quitting in your case,
> alas. Perhaps the output from
>
> sh -x ./texi2dvi --verbose Rd2.tex >Rd2.trace
>
> could help? I've attached what I got.
>
> Also deleting chunks from the file to get a smaller file that gives
> the same error can only help. (It would make the log files shorter and
> possibly easier to spot what's wrong.)
>
> NB I don't know if the problem is on my end or yours but I have awful
> trouble reading emails with long logs in the body of the email: could
> you try sending any long logs or output as attachments instead? That's
> if you weren't doing that already and my mail reader (GMail web
> interface) is displaying them inline).