Re: [help-texinfo] Cross-References display undefined when using @include

[Christopher Dimech]

I removed all the files, and rerun texi2pdf 2019308.texi

Still, I get undefined. Still haven't figured out how this is happening.

when I use @setfilename and run texi2pdf a few times, everything is correct.

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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 at 11:52 AM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <address@hidden>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [help-texinfo] Cross-References display undefined when using 
> @include
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 12:38:09AM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > This is a basic test composed of two files "2019308.texi" (main with 
> > cross-references) and
> > "bibl.texi" (bibliography with an anchor).
> >
> > Cross-References do work (when one clicks on the reference, it directs you 
> > to the cross-reference).
> > However the pdf file shows
> > <undefined> [bibl-Semenza-et-Ghirotti-2000], page <undefined>
> >
> > However when one uses @setfilename 2019308.info (comment the line out), one 
> > gets
> > [bibl-Semenza-et-Ghirotti-2000], page 2
> >
> > Have been under the impression that if there is no @setfilename line, 
> > makeinfo uses the
> > input file name to determine the output name.  Was aware that @setfilename 
> > used to be
> > required by the Texinfo processors, but I've read it is no longer 
> > required.However, this
> > test shows otherwise.
>
> @setfilename is not used at all when processing with TeX.  The most
> likely explanation is that the auxiliary files changed between runs of
> TeX.  If you had processed the file again *without* commenting out the
> @setfilename line, then I expect the cross-reference would also have
> been output correctly.
>
> I tested it both with "texi2pdf 2019308.texi" and "makeinfo --pdf
> 2019308.texi" and both times TeX is run twice as it should be.
>
> If you run "pdfetex 2019308.texi" just once when 2019308.aux and
> 2019308.toc don't exist, then the output is what you got.
>
> What exactly are you doing to process the files?
>