Would like to share with you my personal best:Compile -> 254 warnings.Compile again -> 0 warnings.Will they fix this in the future?

which compiler are you using - MikTex... perhaps?

Perhaps you forgot to use the "pretty please" compiler switch?

MikTeX, yeah

BTW Sierp, I see you're back. Hi. In your signature are you talking about the QFCL?

Indeed Sir.

what's the best compiler for latex? I actually never really cared about it.

Devon, I don´t really know what the best one would be, it really depends on which platform are you, if you´re refing bibtex, compiling to DVI only or pdflatexing directly. There are many compilers out there. MikTex is the least cumbersome to use on Windows, but if you´re working on Linux/MAC there are other interesting options.Cheers and thanks for the reception, I see the forum has been super busy with very interesting stuff lately.

QuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsWould like to share with you my personal best:Compile -> 254 warnings.Compile again -> 0 warnings.Will they fix this in the future?Inside every warning is a run-time error trying to escape.

In the first pass, it collects the labels. It can't yet resolve any reference, and issues "undefined" warnings for each.In the second pass, it matches the references to the collected labels and all is well.Nothing to see here, move along.

QuoteOriginally posted by: lballabioIn the first pass, it collects the labels. It can't yet resolve any reference, and issues "undefined" warnings for each.In the second pass, it matches the references to the collected labels and all is well.Nothing to see here, move along.Thanks Luigi, I think I knew that And if I know this, then many people do, and maybe somebody could also fix this

Hey Devon, you know what they will say if you complain about the iterative compiling stuff don´t ya? As an open project the first thing you´ll hear is: "not pleased about it? Then go and fix it!" - and they´re right. If there´s something fundamentally wrong with any such tool, as a user ( with spare time and good skills ) you should go and fix it yourself.

QuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsThanks Luigi, I think I knew that You did. I'm not so sure about others

QuoteOriginally posted by: lballabioIn the first pass, it collects the labels. It can't yet resolve any reference, and issues "undefined" warnings for each.In the second pass, it matches the references to the collected labels and all is well.Nothing to see here, move along.if that is the case the latex output likely will contain an explicit "Please recompile" statement at the end, right? Back in the days I remember a typical latex 'makefile' containing a line to grep for that line and automatically re-run target until it vanished. Not sure if modern IDE like Kile do that as well.

@Luigi,BTW thinking about it, it was not the first time I compiled the project. In general it remembers at least some labels and you don't get warnings for each of them. Do you have any idea about what I could have changed to screw it up completely? I ran texhash at some point.