2024-11-01 release: \refstepcounter@optarg ...cref@currentlabel \@nil

[cfr42]

I'm not sure where this bug belongs. I also can't reproduce locally because even a new install of TL is out of date. Simplified version of this example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\newtheorem{plemma}[chapter]{Lemma}
\begin{document}
\chapter{S}
\begin{plemma}
  T
\end{plemma}
\end{document}

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Chapter 1.
! Use of \cref@override@label@type doesn't match its definition.
\refstepcounter@optarg ...cref@currentlabel \@nil 
                                                  {\@tempa }}
l.9 \begin{plemma}

? 
! Emergency stop.
\refstepcounter@optarg ...cref@currentlabel \@nil 
                                                  {\@tempa }}
l.9 \begin{plemma}

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!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

! Emergency stop.
\refstepcounter@optarg ...cref@currentlabel \@nil 
                                                  {\@tempa }}
l.9 \begin{plemma}

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on document.log.

Timeout/Error status: 1 [pdflatex][document]

I realise this is probably not really hyperref's fault and it should be fixed in cleveref but .... In any case, apologies for reporting it here.

[muzimuzhi]

It's the \refstepcounter[plemma]{chapter} used by \begin{plemma} that throws the error.

cleveref assumes the hyperref-patched \refstepcounter always call \H@refstepcounter, thus it further patches \H@refstepcounter to add its own logic, especially the logic to update \cref@currentlabel.

But now hyperref doesn't redefine \refstepcounter anymore and \H@refstepcounter is never used in it. This leaves the \cref@currentlabel in its initial value (which is empty) and an error is thrown when it's updated by

    \protected@edef\cref@currentlabel{%
      \expandafter\cref@override@label@type%
        \cref@currentlabel\@nil{#1}}%

It's so messy that I don't fully understand the patching dependencies.

The LaTeX firstaid already contains some patch for cleveref (see for example https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/3d8c18544c01f88703fd88ce77118d82df32aa23), so perhaps the fix will eventually go into firstaid too.

[dbitouze]

I guess same kind of issue with:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
Foo
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

which fails to compile with:

^C
! Interruption.
\lsthk@EveryPar ...entprefix {\cref@currentprefix 
                                                  }
l.7 Foo

?

test.log

[u-fischer]

@dbitouze I have a fix for this in a branch. I will handle that later today.