Re: perfbook build error

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:59:22PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:32:30AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Or the newer version of latex doesn't like the \co{} macro definition.
> > 
> > One hack-around is to replace the definition on line 38 of perfbook.tex
> > with something like this:
> > 
> > 	\newcommand{\co}[1]{\url{#1}}
> > 
> > Does that help, modulo the resulting bogus links?
> 
> Nah, this chokes on the '#' char:
> 
> ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \Hy@tempa.
> <to be read again> 
>                    d
> l.876 two \co{#define}
>                        statements, giving us not one but two ways to create
> ? 
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again> 
>                    d
> l.876 two \co{#define}
>                        statements, giving us not one but two ways to create
> End of file on the terminal!
> ---

That is odd given that URLs really can contain "#"...

> Btw, don't waste too much time with it before you can reproduce it
> yourself and can actually confirm it is a latex issue. I might be
> missing packages or so... although updating texlive-latex-* works out
> fine and pulls in whatever it needs.
> 
> Btw, it looks like it has trouble with this custom defined command. Built-in
> stuff works:
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex b/toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex
> index c98f3a78652f..e227fe7363fb 100644
> --- a/toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex
> +++ b/toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex
> @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ but may be implemented straightforwardly as follows:
>         \hline
>         \hline
>         Thread Management
> -               & \co{pthread_t}
> +               & \L test

I am guessing that \L chokes on underscores, otherwise, it would be an
attractive alternative to \co{}.  (It does choke on underscores in my
old environment.)

>                         & \co{struct task_struct} \\
>         \cline{2-3}
>                 & \co{pthread_create()}
> --
> 
> I need to investigate more.

Please let me know how it goes!

							Thanx, Paul