Hi Alan

i had exactly the same issue that drove me mad

this solved this for me:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166163

let me know if you need any help!

best

Z.


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On my Archlinux box with up to date texlive, and a newly cloned org-mode
> installation, "make doc" fails with the following messages:
>
> Output written on org.pdf (257 pages, 974386 bytes).
> Transcript written on org.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make[1]: *** [org.pdf] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/WB/Elisp/org-mode.git/doc'
> make: *** [pdf] Error 2
>
> This is a recent happening, within approxiately 2 to 3 weeks.  I
> downgraded emacs (also relevant to another recent problem), and re-cloned
> the git repo.
>
> Should I run text2pdf on org.texi, in the doc/ directory, the pdf file is
> generated cleanly.   I assume there is an issue in doc/Makefile.
>
> One suspects this issue may involve a recent update of the texlive
> packages on this system.  In doc/Makefile, is a workaround due to a bug in
> texi2dvi.  When I deleted the two lines from doc/Makefile, the same issue
> seems to exist, but making of org.pdf is skipped, since it already exists:
> the failure is for orgguide.pdf, in this case.
>
> I do not understand makefiles well enough to go any further with this.
>
> Alan Davis
>