On 13/05/2014 09:22, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> The newest fix-cm contains at the end some code to fix floats which
> imho doesn't belong there. The identical code is also in fixltx2e.
> 
> \def\@xfloat #1[#2]{%
> ....
> 
> \ProvidesPackage{fix-cm}
>           [2014/04/27 v1.1p fixes to LaTeX]
> 
> \ProvidesPackage{fixltx2e}
>          
>           [2014/04/27 v1.1p fixes to LaTeX]

Thanks for the report. The issue here was a missing set of DocStrip
guards (fixltx2e and fix-cm come from the same source file). This is now
corrected in the SVN and will be sent to CTAN soon.
-- 
Joseph Wright