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. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
