Hi, I write and maintain the TeXInfo documentation for NCO and sometime within the last year, my RPM-system-based texi2dvi stopped working on the file, while my Debian-system-based texi2dvi continues to work. Specifically, Fedora Core 18 and 19 will not build this file, and Ubuntu (all versions) will:
http://nco.sf.net/nco.texi By "not build" I mean FC19 texi2dvi fails (exact messages below). The problem seems to occur in a @tex environment portion. My sense (no proof) is that the nco.texi is big, and the FC texi2dvi fails because some weird internal TeX limit is being exceeded. Any suggestions? Thanks! cz zender@roulee:~/nco/doc$ uname -a Linux roulee 3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 29 19:05:45 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux zender@roulee:~/nco/doc$ texi2dvi --version texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 5.1) 5234 zender@roulee:~/nco/doc$ texi2dvi nco.texi This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./nco.texi (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2013-02-01.11]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros, cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011> ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) 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[17] l.1842: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-snt'. l.1842: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-snt'. l.1842: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-pg'. l.1852: Undefined cross reference `File List Attributes-snt'. l.1852: Undefined cross reference `File List Attributes-snt'. l.1852: Undefined cross reference `File List Attributes-pg'. [18] l.1931: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-snt'. l.1931: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-snt'. l.1931: Undefined cross reference `History Attribute-pg'. [19] [20] l.2092: Undefined cross reference `Type Conversion-snt'. l.2092: Undefined cross reference `Type Conversion-snt'. l.2092: Undefined cross reference `Type Conversion-pg'. l.2143: Undefined cross reference `Left hand casting-snt'. l.2143: Undefined cross reference `Left hand casting-snt'. l.2143: Undefined cross reference `Left hand casting-pg'. [21] Chapter 3 [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] Overfull \hbox (95.42339pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3119--3119 []@texttt http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis. dailyavgs/surface \[] l.3127: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-snt'. l.3127: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-snt'. l.3127: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-pg'. l.3177: Undefined cross reference `ncks netCDF Kitchen Sink-snt'. l.3177: Undefined cross reference `ncks netCDF Kitchen Sink-snt'. l.3177: Undefined cross reference `ncks netCDF Kitchen Sink-pg'. 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[69] l.6138: Undefined cross reference `ncpdq netCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly-snt' . l.6138: Undefined cross reference `ncpdq netCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly-snt' . l.6138: Undefined cross reference `ncpdq netCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly-pg'. l.6141: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-snt'. l.6141: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-snt'. l.6141: Undefined cross reference `Methods and functions-pg'. [70] l.6214: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-snt'. l.6214: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-snt'. l.6214: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-pg'. l.6283: Undefined cross reference `Mask condition-snt'. l.6283: Undefined cross reference `Mask condition-snt'. l.6283: Undefined cross reference `Mask condition-pg'. [71] l.6313: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-snt'. l.6313: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-snt'. l.6313: Undefined cross reference `ncwa netCDF Weighted Averager-pg'. ./nco.texi:6389: Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> ^ '->^ \bgroup \prim@s \thistitle ...nym {NCO} \value {nco-edition} User' s Guide <inserted text> \line {\folio \hfil \thistitle } <inserted text> ...dline \else \the \evenheadline \fi } ... l.6389 ? -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
