#859 pdfetex exited with bad status

[Eugene Nine]

Building 3.0 on x64 Linux I receive the following error:

Making all in readmes
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
Makefile:1060: recipe for target 'vice.pdf' failed
make[2]: *** [vice.pdf] Error 1
Makefile:655: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Makefile:505: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

texinfo is version 6.1

[Marco van den Heuvel]

Please change the '-q' in the doc/Makefile in the texi2dvi line to '-V' and then report what it gives you.

[Eugene Nine]

Making all in readmes
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing vicepdf.texi ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: running pdfetex --file-line-error '\input' ./openout.tex ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support... yes
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: BIBINPUTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: DVIPSHEADERS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: INDEXSTYLE='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: MFINPUTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: MPINPUTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: TEXINPUTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: TFMFONTS='/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc:/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/.:'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `20120103' ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Inserting extra commands: \
@set platformall 
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: cd /home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/vice.t2d/pdf/build
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Cycle 1 for ./vicepdf.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '\catcode126=12 \def\normaltilde{~}\catcode126=13 \let~\normaltilde ' '\input' '/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/vice.t2d/pdf/xtr/vicepdf.texi' ...
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/vice.t2d/pdf/xtr/vicepdf.texi
(/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2012-01-03.09]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex) localization, formatting,
and turning on texinfo input format.) [1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/
updmap/pdftex.map}] Chapter 1
/home/Eugene/Downloads/vice/vice-3.0/doc/vice.t2d/pdf/xtr/vicepdf.texi:285: Und
efined control sequence.
@txiescapepdf ... @else @xdef #1{@pdfescapestring 
                                                  {#1}}@fi 
@pdfmkdest ...name {#1}@txiescapepdf @pdfdestname 
                                                  @safewhatsit {@pdfdest nam...

@setref #1#2->@pdfmkdest {#1}
                             @iflinks {@atdummies @edef @writexrdef ##1##2{@...

@donoderef ...empty @else @setref {@lastnode }{#1}
                                                  @global @let @lastnode =@e...

@chapmacro ...y {@toctype }{#1}{#3}@donoderef {#2}
                                                  @nobreak @vbox {@hyphenpen...

@chapterzzz ...acro {#1}{Ynumbered}{@the @chapno }
                                                  @global @let @section = @n...
...
l.285 @chapter GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

? 

Looks like I have an older texinfo, what version do you have?

[gpz]

closing because...5 years :) please reopen if the problem persists