pdflatex errors in doc dir

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Hi Warren,


after I upgrade my server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, I now get
an error message when trying to build the PDFs:

xmlto --skip-validation --with-dblatex pdf -o cygwin-ug-net/ /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml
Build the book set list...
Build the listings...
XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.4)
===================================================
prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
prompt: default template used in programlisting or screen
[...]
Build cygwin-ug-net.pdf
pdflatex failed
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \bin.
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: Undefined control sequence \cygwin.
cygwin-ug-net.tex:358: leading text: \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll}
cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
cygwin-ug-net.tex:359: leading text: that the root path is \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin}
cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: Undefined control sequence \Cygwin.
cygwin-ug-net.tex:360: leading text: ...} file in \nolinkurl{C:\Cygwin\etc\fstab}
[...]
Unexpected error occured
Error: pdflatex compilation failed

All the error message lead to the backslash as a character being
interpreted as a special character suddenly.  This wasn't the case
before and, I believe, you probably don't see this when creating
the docs under Cygwin.

The package containing the pdflatex tool is called

  texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18.noarch

Is this a bug in that package, or are we doing something wrong all
the time and only a newer pdflatex version is more aggressive in
error handling?


Thanks,
Corinna

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