I ran into this problem when building the Autoconf manual using Texinfo 6.3 on
Fedora 24, which has Perl 5.22.2. With the attached file (which is a
stripped-down version of the manual), the command 'makeinfo autoconf.texi'
complains:
Negative repeat count does nothing at
/home/eggert/opt/Linux-x86_64/texinfo-6.3/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
line 1038.
Negative repeat count does nothing at
/home/eggert/opt/Linux-x86_64/texinfo-6.3/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
line 1039.
These complaints seem to be bogus. I expect this some sort of Perl compatibility
issue.
PS. I suggest adding this as a test case for Texinfo, as it would be amusing to
test Texinfo with Chaos....
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@setfilename autoconf.info
@node Top
@flushright
A physicist, an engineer, and a computer scientist were discussing the
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
separation of solids from liquids@enddots{}'' The computer scientist
shouted: ``And the Chaos, where do you think it was coming from, hmm?''
---Anonymous
@end flushright
@bye
