As pointed out by Fabrice Rossi, David Carlisle proposed an example of LaTeX documents whose cross references are never right:
\documentclass{article}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\begin{document}
a\clearpage b\clearpage c\clearpage
\begin{figure}[!t]
\framebox(200,430){}
\caption{a figure to take up space}
\end{figure}
Some interesting text about something in Section \ref{x},
which starts on page \pageref{x}.
\section{zzz\label{x}}
The text of an interesting section.
\end{document}
An infinite sequences of compilations results in an infinite sequence of PDF files having a recurring cycle with two values.
The program latexmk considers that a non-pathological document can be build with no more than 5 LaTeX passes:
$max_repeat [5]
The maximum number of times latexmk will run latex/pdflatex before deciding that there
may be an infinite loop and that it needs to bail out, rather than rerunning latex/pdflatex
again to resolve cross-references, etc. The default value covers all normal cases.
We may want to increase the default number of passes when processing a LaTeX document.
As pointed out by Fabrice Rossi, David Carlisle proposed an example of LaTeX documents whose cross references are never right:
Source: TEX:a/79699
An infinite sequences of compilations results in an infinite sequence of PDF files having a recurring cycle with two values.
The program
latexmkconsiders that a non-pathological document can be build with no more than 5 LaTeX passes:We may want to increase the default number of passes when processing a LaTeX document.