Hi Shreevatsa - I have applied your patch from August 15 to make
pdftex.web weave-able again. Sorry for the delay, thanks for the fix.

This is in the TeX Live repository; I still have not had time to sync
the pdftex repository since the TL17 release :(.
http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftex.web?view=log

Best,
Karl