Bug#439877: texinfo: texi2pdf doesn't work if a ~ is in the file path

[Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>]

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-6
Severity: important

Hi,

With texi2pdf :

$ texi2dvi --pdf cinelerra_cv_manual_en.texi  
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0'.
<to be read again> 
                   \penalty 
~->\penalty 
            \@M \ 
<*> /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0~
                                       svn20070827/doc/cinelerra_cv_manual_e...
Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again> 
                   \penalty 
~->\penalty 
            \@M \ 
<*> /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0~
                                       svn20070827/doc/cinelerra_cv_manual_e...

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on texput.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: see cinelerra_cv_manual_en.log for errors.


Of course this work with no ~ in the path.

Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

texinfo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information