[help-texinfo] texi2dvi breaks on http://nco.sf.net/nco.texi

[Charlie Zender]

Hi,

I write and maintain the TeXInfo documentation for NCO and sometime
within the last year, my RPM-system-based texi2dvi stopped working
on the file, while my Debian-system-based texi2dvi continues to work.
Specifically, Fedora Core 18 and 19 will not build this file, and
Ubuntu (all versions) will:

http://nco.sf.net/nco.texi

By "not build" I mean FC19 texi2dvi fails (exact messages below).
The problem seems to occur in a @tex environment portion.
My sense (no proof) is that the nco.texi is big, and the FC texi2dvi
fails because some weird internal TeX limit is being exceeded.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!
cz

address@hidden:~/nco/doc$ uname -a
Linux roulee 3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 29 19:05:45 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
address@hidden:~/nco/doc$ texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 5.1) 5234
address@hidden:~/nco/doc$ texi2dvi nco.texi
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./nco.texi
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2013-02-01.11]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc,
environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(./nco.aux)
(./my-bib-macros.texi) [1] [2] (Foreword) [1] (Summary) [2] Chapter 1 [3]
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-- 
Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(