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

[Gavin Smith]

On 20 August 2015 at 22:41, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Gavin,
>
> Your email confirms what I thought, my problem is that my log file does
> not contain any \openout traces while yours have them. Please note that
> your diff did not work properly probably because my log uses CRLF EOL's
> and your uses LF.  To make diff work properly, please try:
>
>    diff -ab metafont-for-beginners.log{,-VINCENT}

Isn't metafont-for-beginners.log just that log of the final (e)TeX
run, so if texi2dvi runs it twice, we won't see what happened from the
first time that caused it to be read the second time?

> So it seems that the difference comes from this that MikTeX does not
> make these \openout traces. After the first run you have:
>
> /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: Original xref files =
> /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: New xref files      = metafont-for-beginners.aux 
> metafont-for-beginners.toc
>
> while in my case, I have:
>
> /local/bin/texi2dvi: Original xref files =
> /local/bin/texi2dvi: New xref files      =
>
> ie. New xref file list is empty.
>
> One more thing that strikes me is the following: your log file contains
> the \openout traces, but these traces do not appear in the output of
> texi2dvi, so there are traced as information (going to the log file but
> not to the standard output). So something seems to prevent MikTeX from
> logging the information, maybe the program is stopped because this
> stream is flushed.
>
> One more thing I cannot understand: why don't the other output files
> (index files .ky, .cp, etc...) go tot he New xref files list in your
> case ?

>From my reading of the source of texi2dvi, it looks in the filesystem
to see what files were produced; it doesn't look at what \openout's
were done.

I suggest deleting the *.log, *.aux and *.toc files, and simply do

"etex metafont-for-beginners.tex"

then have a look to see if the *.toc file was actually created. This
should narrow down the cause of the problem.

"tex metafont-for-beginners.tex"

may work as well, although I had errors with texinfo.tex version
2014-12-03.16. Version 2015-08-21.13 does work for me. To use a
particular texinfo.tex version, I copied the file to the directory I
was running "tex" in.

> I don't know how to proceed...
>
> Karl:
>
> - do you think that this is a bug of MikTeX?
> - why index files are overlooked by texi2dvi, ie not in the xref file
>   list?
>
>    Vincent.