[pkg-bacula-devel] [Bacula-devel] Building the docs as PDF fails

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi Arno,

Arno Lehmann via Bacula-devel <bacula-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
writes:

> Hi Carsten, all
>
> Am 20.11.2024 um 14:21 schrieb Carsten Leonhardt:
> ... (snip description of the challenges with a really convoluted build
> process)
>> It seems to boil down to:
>> /usr/bin/pdflatex -halt-on-error -interaction=errorstopmode
>> main.tex ""
>> [...]
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.53 ...given Job can be displayed with the \textt
>>>                                                    {list files type=malware}
>>> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> A favorite of mine... just change \textt to \texttt and this problem
> should be solved.

Thanks, that helped me get further and reminded me how to read TeX's
error messages, but there are more errors in there. Apparently there is
no such thing as a \subsubsubsection in TeX, but after that I'm stuck
again. I don't think it's very useful to write to this list for every
new error I find, it would be better that someone who knows TeX to fix
them.

> How that managed to pass the release process is something I have no
> idea about.

I just had the idea to look into the bacula-docs-15.0.2.tar.bz2 as
distributed from sourceforge, it contains prebuilt PDFs, but not the
main.pdf. So at least it's not only my problem :-D

Regards

Carsten