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Bug#472758: marked as done (texinfo: internal error: LaTeX not recognised as a language)

Your message dated Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:23:40 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#472758: texinfo: internal error: LaTeX not recognised as a language
has caused the Debian Bug report #472758,
regarding texinfo: internal error: LaTeX not recognised as a language
to be marked as done.

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Package: texinfo
Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
Severity: minor

While trying to build some old documentation, I encountered the
following problem:

     jordi@Iris:~/coding/devel/lidia/lidia-2.2.0$ make doc
     Making all in doc
     make[1]: Entering directory
     `/home/jordi/coding/devel/lidia/lidia-2.2.0/doc'

     TEX="latex" PDFTEX="pdflatex" TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS"
     BIBTEX="bibtex" BIBINPUTS="." MAKEINDEX="makeindex -s LiDIA.ist"
     INDEXSTYLE="." texi2dvi -l LaTeX LiDIA.tex

     /usr/bin/texi2dvi: internal error, unknown language: LaTeX

(a few linebreaks added for clarity)

That's bizarre. The texi2dvi manpage says that "-l LaTeX" is a
recognised option. Either the manpage or texi2dvi has a bug. The
environment variables are probably irrelevant; I can get the same
error message from texi2dvi by just running "texi2dvi -l LaTeX foo.tex" on
any file named "foo.tex"

Researching further, it seems the problem is the capitalisation of
LaTeX. Changing the command to "$(ENV VARS HERE) texi2dvi -l latex
LiDIA.tex" made this work.

I am guessing this is a recent change to texi2dvi, so either the
manpage has to change to reflect this change, or the program should
support the older option.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

texinfo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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> the options, which have to be used. The fix is in 4.13 -> tagging as
> fixed in upstream.

4.13 is uploaded, so I close this bug. Forgot to do it in the changelog

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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