Silence warning about non-existing destination without disabling hyperref

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This is not a duplicate but a follow-up question to "Reference does not exist" warning with \includeonly.

I use \includeonly to compile only part of my document. This causes hyperref to output a lot of warnings like

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{chapter.3} has been referenced but does not exist, 
replaced by a fixed one

In "Reference does not exist" warning with \includeonly it was suggested to disable hyperref in order to silence the warning. However, since my chapters are quite long and I use \eqref extensively, I'd rather like hyperref to be enabled so that I can jump around the chapter as I write.

How can this be done? I did not get the silence package to filter out this warning message.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '16 at 18:18

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The warning is directly thrown by pdfTeX. The TeX macro level is not involved, thus package like silence do not work for this case.

The warning can be suppressed by changing the source code of pdfTeX and recompiling.

answered Jan 14 '16 at 18:18

Heiko Oberdiek

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With pdfTeX, you don't mean the pdfTeX-file, but actually the Tex-distribution? How/Where can I change the source-code of pdfTeX? How can I recompile pdfTeX? – JoKalliauer Jun 26 '18 at 09:28
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@JoKalliauer I meant the pdfTeX binary (program file). Sources, see Development. – Heiko Oberdiek Jun 26 '18 at 16:33

Silence warning about non-existing destination without disabling hyperref

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