Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: bison-1.35 > Version: 1.35-4 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > building the package bison-1.35 in a clean sid build environment > (with pbuilder) on i386 results in: > > ========================================================================= > [...] > TEXINPUTS="../config:$TEXINPUTS" \ > MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /tmp/buildd/bison-1.35-1.35/config/missing --run makeinfo > -o bison-1.35.info -I .' \ > texi2dvi bison.texinfo > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) [...] > dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. > make[1]: *** [bison.ps] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/bison-1.35-1.35/doc' > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 > =========================================================================
The reason is that bison-1.35 ships its own copy of texinfo.tex, which has a bad check for pdf vs. dvi output. Simply removing the file will probably fix the bug. By the way, Chuan-kai, the bison package also ships its own copy of texinfo.tex. Although it has a working test for pdf output, it is probably safer to remove it, too, and let texinfo use its own files. Regards, Frank, for the teTeX maintainers. -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
