tex error in documentation build

Bug #1549892 reported by Fila Kolodny
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
SBCL
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

(/home/fila/sbcl/doc/manual/docstrings/condition-sb-ext-compiler-note.texinfo
/home/fila/sbcl/doc/manual/docstrings/condition-sb-ext-compiler-note.texinfo:3:
 TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [text input levels=15].
\scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc }
                                                  \aftermacro
l.2 ...\gobblespaces \gobblespaces compiler-note}
                                                  %
\scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc }
                                                  \aftermacro
l.2 ...\gobblespaces \gobblespaces compiler-note}
                                                  %
\scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc }
                                                  \aftermacro
l.2 ...\gobblespaces \gobblespaces compiler-note}
                                                  %
...
l.3 ...@lw{compiler-note}, @lw{condition}, @lw{t}}

/home/fila/sbcl/doc/manual/docstrings/condition-sb-ext-compiler-note.texinfo:3:
  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on sbcl.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
Makefile:89: recipe for target 'sbcl.pdf' failed
make: [sbcl.pdf] Error 1 (ignored)
sbcl version: SBCL 1.3.2.136-7c6bbaa
uname -a: Linux fila-virtual-machine 4.4.0-7-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 18 20:50:38 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Stas Boukarev (stassats) wrote :

A previous version of texinfo is able to compile it.

Changed in sbcl:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Christoph Egger (christoph-egger) wrote :

FWIW this has been discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815205 as well and a minimized testcase submitted to texinfo upstream by Debian's tex folks. So should hopefully be fixed soon in texinfo

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Christoph Egger (christoph-egger) wrote :

Hi again! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815205 has a really simple patch, might be worth considering!

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Stas Boukarev (stassats) wrote :

So the previous version of texinfo worked by accident and they don't plan on fixing it?

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Christoph Egger (christoph-egger) wrote :

That's how I understand it. Seems I wasn't properly subscribed to the bug so didn't see your reply

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Christoph Egger (christoph-egger) wrote :

And missed the comment on the debian bts by Christophe as well. Sorry for that

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