Hi Alan i had exactly the same issue that drove me mad
this solved this for me: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166163 let me know if you need any help! best Z. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On my Archlinux box with up to date texlive, and a newly cloned org-mode > installation, "make doc" fails with the following messages: > > Output written on org.pdf (257 pages, 974386 bytes). > Transcript written on org.log. > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting. > make[1]: *** [org.pdf] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/WB/Elisp/org-mode.git/doc' > make: *** [pdf] Error 2 > > This is a recent happening, within approxiately 2 to 3 weeks. I > downgraded emacs (also relevant to another recent problem), and re-cloned > the git repo. > > Should I run text2pdf on org.texi, in the doc/ directory, the pdf file is > generated cleanly. I assume there is an issue in doc/Makefile. > > One suspects this issue may involve a recent update of the texlive > packages on this system. In doc/Makefile, is a workaround due to a bug in > texi2dvi. When I deleted the two lines from doc/Makefile, the same issue > seems to exist, but making of org.pdf is skipped, since it already exists: > the failure is for orgguide.pdf, in this case. > > I do not understand makefiles well enough to go any further with this. > > Alan Davis >
