problems compiling virtio spec on Fedora 21

Spec fails to build: (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/compatibility/pgfcomp-version-0-65 .sty ! Undefined control sequence. pgfsys@svg@newline ->Hnewline
l.190
pgfusepathqfill}
?  ! Emergency stop. pgfsys@svg@newline ->Hnewline
l.190
pgfusepathqfill}  I filed a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180868
For now, the following patch to texlive seems to help:  --- /tmp/pgfsys-tex4ht.def	2015-01-11 13:14:18.089482204 +0200 +++ /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-tex4ht.def	2015-01-11 12:59:09.288542620 +0200 @@ -86,7 +86,8 @@  %
class="}{\%s}{-\%s}{x-x-\%d}{}{">}{</span>}  %}
-defpgfsys@svg@newline{Hnewline} +% defpgfsys@svg@newline{Hnewline} +defpgfsys@svg@newline{{?nl}}
% we don't want tex4ht putting <p> and </p> tags automatically in our svg code and causing invalid xhtml in our svg pictures
ewififpgfsys@CssIncluded@pgfsys@CssIncluded@false