Bug#611411: glibc-doc-reference: FTBFS: texi2dvi fails
user release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertag 611411 + squeeze-can-defer
tag 611411 + squeeze-ignore
thanks
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 01:08 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> glibc-doc-reference FTBFS in a clean squeeze chroot. Tail of the build
> log:
>
> | texi2dvi --pdf libc.texinfo
> | make[1]: *** [libc.pdf] Error 1
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/sbuild-glibc-doc-reference_2.11.1-1-i386-6OZu9C/glibc-doc-reference-2.11.1/manual'
> | make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
>
> If texi2dvi weren't buggy (#611408), the error message would be:
>
> | This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> | restricted \write18 enabled.
> | I can't find the format file `etex.fmt'!
It's rather unlikely we're going to need to rebuild glibc-doc-reference
in squeeze during its lifetime as a stable release and it's arch:all so
this also won't affect autobuilding; marking as not a blocker.
Regards,
Adam
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