Hi, I tried to build the bbdb. After configuring: the "make" fails for the
documentation, flagging a number of errors. the first one is:

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Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/msteffen/Collectionofreposes/bbdb-git/doc'
TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" \
MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /home/msteffen/Collectionofreposes/bbdb-git/missing makeinfo   -I .' \
texi2dvi --pdf --batch  --build-dir=bbdb.t2p -o bbdb.pdf  \
bbdb.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.6-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2014/dev)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
I can't find the format file `etex.fmt'!

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt etex.fmt
fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' ...
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Afterwards (perhaps a subsequent error):


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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-en-us.te
x))
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   \chardef
<to be read again>
                   \rhm@farsi
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.89 \addlanguage{farsi}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}
                                           
?
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again>
                   \chardef
<to be read again>
                   \rhm@farsi
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.89 \addlanguage{farsi}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}
                                           
No pages of output.
Transcript written on etex.log.
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /home/msteffen/.texlive2013/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed
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Any suggestions what is wrong? Note that doing

      tex bbdb.texi

works fine. Note also that in latex, I can use the etex-class (but I don't
know if that's related to tex/texinfo).

Thanks, Martin