Thanks for the diagnosis. I installed the attached workaround into
Autoconf to work around the problem, as unfixed Texinfo versions will be
around for a while.
From d3a4cccfe8807c7354ef6edd2913362d34d8e574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:14:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: resplit lines to avoid Texinfo chaos
* doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Resplit lines to avoid
Texinfo 6.3 incompatibility with Perl 5.22. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-09/msg00037.html
---
doc/autoconf.texi | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index d3ccf19..9ad7dc1 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -693,8 +693,8 @@ nature of God. ``Surely a Physicist,'' said the physicist, ``because
early in the Creation, God made Light; and you know, Maxwell's
equations, the dual nature of electromagnetic waves, the relativistic
consequences@enddots{}'' ``An Engineer!,'' said the engineer, ``because
-before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes a
-hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud, and orderly
+before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes
+a hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud, and orderly
separation of solids from liquids@enddots{}'' The computer scientist
shouted: ``And the Chaos, where do you think it was coming from, hmm?''
--
2.7.4
