Hi Gavin, dear all, (please keep cc)
Another problem with 6.1 has popped up, not being really Debian specific. It is in the sources of sbcl (common lisp interpreter). I reduced the problem to the following minimal not-working example: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @iftex @tex \newif\ifdash \long\def\dashp#1{\expandafter\setnext#1-\dashphelper} \long\def\setnext#1-{\futurelet\next\dashphelper} \long\def\dashphelper#1\dashphelper{ \ifx\dashphelper\next\dashfalse\else\dashtrue\fi } \def\lw#1{\leavevmode\dashp{#1}\ifdash#1\else\hbox{#1}\fi} @end tex @end iftex @macro lw{word} @tex \\lw{\word\}% @end tex @end macro @code{@lw{aaa}} @bye >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and the error message is /mnwe.texinfo:21: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [text input levels=15]. \scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc } \aftermacro l.2 \lw{aaa} % \scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc } \aftermacro l.2 \lw{aaa} % \scanmacro ...atspaces }\scantokens {#1\texinfoc } \aftermacro l.2 \lw{aaa} % ... l.21 @code{@lw{aaa}} No pages of output. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I did run the test with the version in Debian, as well as with the latest code in svn (texinfo [version 2016-03-06.18]). I also confirmed that with the version from 6.0 it works: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=etex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./mnwe.texinfo (/home/norbert/ti/texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2015-06-24.23]: 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.) [1] ) Output written on mnwe.dvi (1 page, 200 bytes). Transcript written on mnwe.log. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------