Bug 1375931

Created attachment 1200762 [details]
gawk-4.1.4-1.fc26.src.rpm

Description of problem:
I'm trying to do a rebase of gawk to version 4.1.4. During the build, we also compile the documentation from *.texi file to *.pdf and *.ps. While running the mock build locally, I see the error:
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.

The compilation is terminated and the mock build fails because of it. I have already discussed this with gawk upstream (link to the mailing is in the URL above), there's more additional information in the mailing list.

Basically, the problem occurs when I try to build the latest gawk (4.1.4) for Fedora 24 and higher. *Building the same SRPM for Fedora 23 SUCCEEDS.*

I saw that the version of texinfo was updated to version 6.1 for F24 (version 6.0 is in F23).

I think that people were already facing similar issue:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00121.html

However, the fix applied to texinfo-6.1 still does not help me build the SRPM.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This error only occurs inside mock! When I try to build the documentation by running 'make -C doc/ pdf' or 'cd doc && texi2dvi --pdf gawk.texi' (inside gawk-4.1.4 source directory) it succeeds.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
texinfo-6.1.3
texinfo-tex-6.1.3


How reproducible:
Always during local mock build.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the attached SRPM for gawk.
2. Setup mock to work correctly.
3. Run:
> mock -r fedora-23-x86_64 gawk-4.1.4-1.fc26.src.rpm
 -- the build will SUCCEED
4. Run:
> mock -r fedora-24-x86_64 gawk-4.1.4-1.fc26.src.rpm
 -- the build will FAIL


Additional info:
For testing purposes, you can safely comment out the line number 151 in specfile:
# make %{?_smp_mflags}

It will skip directly to compilation of PDF documentation.