Dear Gavin, Ted send a bug report with fixes for texi2dvi. Could you please comment and maybe include for the next release?
Thanks Norbert On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > OK, I see what is going on. This is a bug in texi2dvi in the "local" > build-mode. When you use --clean, this uses the "tidy" mode, where > all of the aux files end up in a libext2fs.t2d directory, and in this > mode texi2dvi doesn't omit protecting the filename using the catcode > hack --- which in fact texi2dvi has support for, but due to a logic > bug in catcode_special variable, this gets erroneously set to false > the second time it is run. The net result is that the second time tex > is run, the ~ character isn't properly protected in local mode. > > I don't mind working around the bug using texi2dvi --clean in > e2fsprogs, but this is technically a bug in the texinfo package, where > they need to apply the following patch: > > --- /usr/bin/texi2dvi 2016-03-05 09:37:09.000000000 -0500 > +++ /tmp/texi2dvi 2016-04-24 20:00:49.866328157 -0400 > @@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ > > # do the special catcode trick for ~ in filenames only for Texinfo, > # not LaTeX. > - if test x"$in_lang" = xtexinfo && test $catcode_special = maybe; then > + if test x"$in_lang" = xtexinfo && test $catcode_special != false ; then > catcode_special=true > else > catcode_special=false > > > texinfo maintainers --- this bug can be reproduced by creating a > pathname to a texinfo file with a ~ in it, and then running texi2dvi > on it. For example: > > % cd /tmp > % rm libext2fs.* > % texi2dvi /tmp/e2fsprogs-1.43~WIP.2016.03.15/doc/libext2fs.texinfo > > and you will get: > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) > (preloaded format=etex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > ! I can't find file `/tmp/e2fsprogs-1.43'. > <to be read again> > \penalty > ~->\penalty > \@M \ > <*> \input /tmp/e2fsprogs-1.43~ > WIP.2016.03.15/doc/libext2fs.texinfo > (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) > Please type another input file name: > > > The patch above will fix the failure. > > - Ted > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
