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

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Aug 11 14:55, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> 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
> 

> From 4d386b5900b6c68e022004b447faa696be5ff8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:46:39 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Use '@sp 1' rather than '@*' to workaround a change in
>  texi2dvi.
> 
> Since about TexInfo 5.0, using '@*' immediately after a table causes a 'You
> can't use `@unskip' in vertical mode' error.
> 
> See https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg00057.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> ---
>  newlib/doc/doc.str | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/newlib/doc/doc.str b/newlib/doc/doc.str
> index 51ecef7..aeef6f7 100644
> --- a/newlib/doc/doc.str
> +++ b/newlib/doc/doc.str
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
>  	courierize
>  	do_fancy_stuff
>  	catstr
> -	"@*\n" catstr
> +	"@sp 1\n" catstr
>  	;
>  
>  : asection
> -- 
> 2.4.5

Patch applied.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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