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

[Gavin Smith]

On 16 August 2015 at 22:06, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
> I attached the log file metafont-for-beginners.log, and by browsing it and
> looking at what the xref_files_changed from texi2dvi is doing I realized what
> the root cause of the issue is. You are grepping the log only for "Rerun to
> get" or for "biblatex.*(re)run" in order to trigger the etex re-run, but there
> aren't any such match in the log file, rather one can read in it:
>
>
> Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again.
>
>
> So, I made some patch (attached as texi2dvi.diff) to grep the above also, and
> with it, it works fine: texi2dvi runs etex twice, and the toc is therefore
> complete.

Do you know why this doesn't work for you, but did work for Karl?
Could it be because of

> FYI, I had to do some small tricks in order to ensure that texi2pdf calls
> texi2dvi shell script in the same directory, because on my machine I had a
> texi2dvi.exe in MikTeX distribution, and MSYS was taking this one instead of
> the latest texi2dvi from the Texinfo project as I have MikTeX bin dir in the
> path...

I just tried running "tex xref.texi" on a simple file "xref.texi"
containing a cross-reference, and indeed the message "Cross reference
values unknown; you must run TeX again." does appear in "xref.log";
texi2pdf, however, still runs tex enough times to get the
cross-references to be filled in.