GNU bug report logs - #23611
generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.94

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-texinfo <at> gnu.org
Cc: 23611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#23611: texinfo.tex 2016-05-07.20: "Tex capacity exceeded" with Emacs manuals
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:08:56 -0700

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texinfo.tex version 2016-05-07.20 (the current version in Gnulib) causes 
what appears to be runaway recursion when used to make PDF files for GNU 
Emacs. The Emacs bug report is here:

http://bugs.gnu.org/23611

To reproduce the problem on a Fedora 23 x86-64 machine with build tools 
installed, you can run these shell commands:

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs-bug
cd emacs-bug
git checkout 1ee91bf89176251f6e399c8436dca0248cdd6f6b
./autogen.sh all
./configure
make pdf

A build transcript is attached.

The problem goes away if I substitute the previous texinfo.tex version, 
2016-04-14.07.

Are recent and near-future texinfo.tex changes relevant for Emacs 
documentation? If not we should probably just freeze emacs-25 based on 
texinfo.tex 2016-04-14.07, since we're close to a release.

[transcript.txt (text/plain, attachment)]
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