pdflatex errors in doc dir

[Corinna Vinschen]

Warren?  Ping?

On Jun 28 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 28 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi Warren,
> > 
> > 
> > after I upgrade my server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, I now get
> > an error message when trying to build the PDFs:
> > 
> > xmlto --skip-validation --with-dblatex pdf -o cygwin-ug-net/ /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml
> > Build the book set list...
> > Build the listings...
> > XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4)
> > ===================================================
> > prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> > prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> > prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
> > [...]
> > Build cygwin-ug-net.pdf
> > pdflatex failed
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \bin.
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \cygwin.
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: leading text: that the root path is \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin}
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
> > cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: leading text: ...} file in \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\etc\fstab}
> > [...]
> > Unexpected error occured
> > Error: pdflatex compilation failed
> > 
> > All the error message lead to the backslash as a character being
> > interpreted as a special character suddenly.  This wasn't the case
> > before and, I believe, you probably don't see this when creating
> > the docs under Cygwin.
> 
> To be more exact:  This affects *only* backslash sequences in the
> <filename>...</filename> bracket.
> 
> This is ok:
> 
>   <screen>
>     \\server\share\...
>   </screen>
> 
> This bombs:
> 
>   <filename>\\server\share\foo</filename>
> 
> > The package containing the pdflatex tool is called
> > 
> >   texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18.noarch
> > 
> > Is this a bug in that package, or are we doing something wrong all
> > the time and only a newer pdflatex version is more aggressive in
> > error handling?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
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> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
> Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat