On 12 October 2017 at 16:31, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 12 October 2017 at 22:32, Johannes Ranke wrote: | | Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017, 12:01:14 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | | | | > So we did this 71 times, but stopped 4+ years ago. Not sure what got the | | > toolchain coughing, but I guess we could try again. | | | | texi2dvi used to trip over ~ in path names, so for locally building backports | | we used to rename the directory that the source was extracted to, substituting | | "~" by "-" before building. But I don't know if that was the reason for Dirk | | to change the scheme. | | | | It seems that this was fixed in texi2dvi upstream | | | | http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/trunk/util/texi2dvi? | | r1=7199&r2=7200 | | It definitely was involved as "guilty party" once, then got fixed upstream -- | and it may have regressed. | | Worth trying again though.
I just did, and got two failures with the 'making pdf files' part. Likely bug in texlive or texinfo -- and possible regression. It really seems to hate a build directory with a ~ in it. So 3.4.2.20171120 for the upcoming 3.4.3. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org