Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

[Christopher Dimech]

somehow texi2pdf is trying to pick out an old 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

----- Christopher Dimech
Administrator General - Naiad Informatics - Gnu Project

Society has become too quick to pass judgement and declare someone
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In a new era of destructive authoritarianism, I support Richard
Stallman.  Times of great crisis are also times of great
opportunity.  I call upon you to make this struggle yours as well !

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> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 11:09 AM
> From: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> To: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
>
>
> Have tested again, with the problem still occurring with the development 
> version.
> The @ifset and @ifclear commands were removed.
>
> @usubsec{16D,
> Utilisation of Rapid Computations}
>
> --------
>
> texi2pdf 06a-amcoh.texi
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) 
> (preloaded format=pdfetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./06a-amcoh.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2018-01-09.11]: 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.)
> (../mastaba/ramasutra.texi) (./06c-amcoh-rfc.texi) 
> [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/
> pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [-1] (6 @ Ameliorating Waveform Coherency)
> Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [1] [2] [3] [4]
> [5] [6] [7]
> Overfull \hbox (40.24854pt too wide) detected at line 790
> @smalli U[] @smallrm = []
> [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
> Overfull \hbox (23.94524pt too wide) detected at line 1287
> [] []
> [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 1719--1722
> @textrm Equipped with the In-ner Prod-uct, the set of Fourier Ba-sis
> [18] [19] [20] [21]
> Runaway argument?
> {
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958: Paragraph ended before @trim@ was complete.
> <to be read again>
>                    @par
> <argument> ^^M
>               Utilisation of Rapid Computations
> @eatspaces ...@expandafter @trim@ @expandafter {#1
>                                                    }
> @value ...value {#1}@else @csname SET#1@endcsname
>                                                   @fi
> @writetocentry ...mp {@write @tocfile {@#1entry{#2
>                                                   }{#3}{@lastnode 
> }{@noexpan...
>
> @sectionheading ...toctype @sectionlevel }{#1}{#4}
>                                                   @donoderef {#3}@nobreak 
> @v...
> ...
> l.1958 Utilisation of Rapid Computations}
>
> ?
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958: Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
>                    @par
> <argument> ^^M
>               Utilisation of Rapid Computations
> @eatspaces ...@expandafter @trim@ @expandafter {#1
>                                                    }
> @value ...value {#1}@else @csname SET#1@endcsname
>                                                   @fi
> @writetocentry ...mp {@write @tocfile {@#1entry{#2
>                                                   }{#3}{@lastnode 
> }{@noexpan...
>
> @sectionheading ...toctype @sectionlevel }{#1}{#4}
>                                                   @donoderef {#3}@nobreak 
> @v...
> ...
> l.1958 Utilisation of Rapid Computations}
>
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on 06a-amcoh.log.
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian) 
> (preloaded format=pdfetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
>
>
>
> Runaway argument?
> {
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958: Paragraph ended before @trim@ was complete.
> <to be read again>
>                    @par
> <argument> ^^M
>               Utilisation of Rapid Computations
> @eatspaces ...@expandafter @trim@ @expandafter {#1
>                                                    }
> @value ...value {#1}@else @csname SET#1@endcsname
>                                                   @fi
> @writetocentry ...mp {@write @tocfile {@#1entry{#2
>                                                   }{#3}{@lastnode 
> }{@noexpan...
>
> @sectionheading ...toctype @sectionlevel }{#1}{#4}
>                                                   @donoderef {#3}@nobreak 
> @v...
> ...
> l.1958 Utilisation of Rapid Computations}
>
> ?
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958: Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
>                    @par
> <argument> ^^M
>               Utilisation of Rapid Computations
> @eatspaces ...@expandafter @trim@ @expandafter {#1
>                                                    }
> @value ...value {#1}@else @csname SET#1@endcsname
>                                                   @fi
> @writetocentry ...mp {@write @tocfile {@#1entry{#2
>                                                   }{#3}{@lastnode 
> }{@noexpan...
>
> @sectionheading ...toctype @sectionlevel }{#1}{#4}
>                                                   @donoderef {#3}@nobreak 
> @v...
> ...
> l.1958 Utilisation of Rapid Computations}
>
> ./06a-amcoh.texi:1958:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on 06a-amcoh.log.
> /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
>
>
>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 8:01 AM
> > From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 6:53 PM Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > @macro usubsec {label, titl}
> > >
> > > @set lb \label\
> > > @set tl \titl\
> > > @ifclear usubsec-no-label
> > >    @unnumberedsubsec @value{lb} @ @value{tl}
> > > @end ifclear
> > >
> > > @ifset usubsec-no-label
> > >   @unnumberedsubsec @value{tl}
> > > @end ifset
> > >
> > > @end macro
> > >
> >
> > This appears to work OK?
> >
> > Eli gave you good advice about putting the macro definition inside the
> > conditionals rather than the other way around although I don't know if
> > that is part of the problem here.
> >
> > I remember you had problems with newlines in macro arguments before
> > but I thought we had fixed them. It wouldn't be surprising if there
> > were still problems though.
> >
> > $ pdfetex test.texi
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)
> > (preloaded format=pdfetex)
> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > entering extended mode
> > (./test.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2021-04-25.21]: pdf,
> > fonts, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, 
> > toc,
> > environments, defuns, macros, cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex
> > This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
> > ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) 
> > [1{/var/lib/t
> > exmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] 
> > )</usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts
> > /type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb>
> > Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 13595 bytes).
> > Transcript written on test.log.
> >
>
>