Re: Loosing my mind with indexes...

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Eli> On 28 Jan 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:

Eli> Please tell me where the problematic places are in the Texinfo
Eli> sources, and I will have another look.
>> As in my first message:

Eli> Yes, but that doesn't pinpoint the place in the Texinfo source
Eli> where TeX choke, and without a .log file (which I don't have
Eli> since it doesn't fail for me ;-), 

:)

Well, I must say I'm not easy with TeX :(

Eli> it will take some tinkering to understand that.  I thought you
Eli> could show the exact location in gnuprog2.texi where it barfs.

It seems to be stuck by @chapter:

| @message{Before node}
| 
| @node Software Testing with Autotest
| @message{Between node and chapter}
| @chapter Software Testing with Autotest
| @message{After chapter}

gives:

| /tmp/texinfo-tex-problem % make                                nostromo Err 
130
| texi2dvi -c gnuprog2.texi
| This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
| (/tmp/texinfo-tex-problem/gnuprog2.texi (/tmp/texinfo-tex-problem/texinfo.tex
| Loading texinfo [version 2002-01-04.07]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
| tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
| cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
| and turning on texinfo input format.) (/tmp/texinfo-tex-problem/gnuprog2.aux)
| Going into autoconf (/tmp/texinfo-tex-problem/autoconf.texi Chapter 1
| Autoconf 1 Autoconf 2 (./gnuprog2.tmp) Autoconf 3 Autoconf 4 Autoconf 5
| Autoconf 6) Coming back from autoconf Before node Between node and chapter
| Chapter 2 [1] [2])
| *
| ! Emergency stop.
| <*> /tmp/texinfo-tex-problem/gnuprog2.texi
|                                           
| Output written on gnuprog2.dvi (2 pages, 628 bytes).
| Transcript written on gnuprog2.log.
| /home/lrde/prof/akim/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
| /home/lrde/prof/akim/bin/texi2dvi: see gnuprog2.log for errors.
| make: *** [all] Error 1

Here is the tarball, which includes all my test files.

texinfo-tex-problem.tz2
Description: Binary data

Thanks!