The cooperation between tabu and hyperref

[maboloshi]

MWE

% -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
%!TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{tabu}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htb]
    \centering
    \begin{tabu}{*{3}{X[c]|}X[c]}
        1  & 2   & 3   & 4  \\
    \end{tabu}
\end{table}
\end{document} 

In this example, if the load order hyperref precedes tabu, an error will be reported.

! You can't use `\relax' after \the.
\tabu@elapsedtime ...optime {\the \pdfelapsedtime 
                                                  }\tabu@message {(tabu)\tab...
l.227     \end{tabu}

[mrpiggi]

From the hyperref manual

This package can be used with more or less any normal LATEX document by specifying in the
document preamble

\usepackage{hyperref}

Make sure it comes last of your loaded packages, to give it a fighting chance of not being
over-written, since its job is to redefine many LATEX commands.

[maboloshi]

I found a patch here today that fixes this bug, so please test it out.

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[jagd]

I had this problem since the last time updating TeXLive.
After some debugging, it was found in my case that tabu has to be before biblatex package, as hyperref was introduced by my biblatex configurations.

\let\tabu@message@etime\relax from that link should fix the error, too.

I found a patch here today that fixes this bug, so please test it out.