Re: [manuals] Manuals failing to build on Ubuntu LTS 14.04

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 11/08/2015 11:08, Andre Vieira wrote:
> On 10/08/15 14:38, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > On 07/08/2015 11:13, Andre Vieira wrote:
> > > Building the manuals on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 (64-bit) using pdfTeX
> > > 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) is failing with the
> > > following error:
> > > "Transcript written on libc.log.
> > > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting."
> > >
> > > libc.log complaints about the following:
> > >
> > > You can't use `@unskip' in vertical mode.
[...]
> > > This code has been around for a while, so it might have to do with a
> > > change in pdfTex?

So it seems this problem has been around for a while, and looks like it 
is due to a change in texi2dvi in texinfo 5.0 or late 4.x, see [1].

I guess it's not very noticeable since it only occurs when doing 'make 
dvi', which doesn't happen by default.

Attached is a different and perhaps cleaner workaround to the one in 
that thread.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg00057.html

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