texinfo.tex version 2016-05-07.20 (the current version in Gnulib) causes what appears to be runaway recursion when used to make PDF files for GNU Emacs. The Emacs bug report is here: http://bugs.gnu.org/23611 To reproduce the problem on a Fedora 23 x86-64 machine with build tools installed, you can run these shell commands: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs-bug cd emacs-bug git checkout 1ee91bf89176251f6e399c8436dca0248cdd6f6b ./autogen.sh all ./configure make pdf A build transcript is attached. The problem goes away if I substitute the previous texinfo.tex version, 2016-04-14.07. Are recent and near-future texinfo.tex changes relevant for Emacs documentation? If not we should probably just freeze emacs-25 based on texinfo.tex 2016-04-14.07, since we're close to a release.