Re: texi2dvi unexpected behaivoir

[Gavin Smith]

On 29 April 2016 at 11:48,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I traced the script until the following point:
> texi2dvi line 991 in function 'filter_files':
>   test -n "$xref_files_new" && echo "$xref_files_new" |
> It seems that the script traps at this point and calls the function
> 'cleanup'. I my case, the string "$xref_files_new" has length zero, so I
> would expect that the command fails.
> On the other hand, a second call to texi2pdf works, if not in clean
> mode. Maybe I am using this helper script in a wrong way, but from the
> description I would expect, that the file above should be complied two
> times by texi2dvi with return value 0.
> If however the function is changed to
>
> filter_files ()
> {
>   if [ -n "$xref_files_new" ] ; then
>           echo "$xref_files_new" |
>           # Filter existing files matching the criterion.
>           #
>           while read file; do
>             $1 "$file"
>           done |
>           sort |
>           # Some files are opened several times, e.g., listings.sty's *.vrb.
>           uniq
>   fi
> }
>
> (note that just test is replaced by an if-clause), everything works as
> expected for me.

It should have been fixed already. You can get the latest version at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texi2dvi. Discussion here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00140.html