Re: building pdf documentation of glibc-doc-reference

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl,

one user reported a problem when building the documentation of libc with
texi2pdf. I narrowed it down to the following minimal example:
        \input texinfo
        @setfilename test.info
        @deftypevar {(} e )
        Hello World
        @end deftypevar
        @bye

Which breaks with
/home/norbert/bla/manual.texi:3: Unbalanced parentheses in @def.
@badparencount ...{Unbalanced parentheses in @def}
                                                  @global @parencount =0 
...

(The original typedef was:
@comment GNU
@deftypevar {void (*} error_print_progname ) (void)
If the....
)


Is this a bug of texinfo, of the libc texinfo file, or should we simply
upgrade texinfo.tex (which is old I know: 
        \def\texinfoversion{2006-02-13.16}
)

Thanks a lot and all the best

Norbert

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