From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: dblatex: Update comment.
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480690505-21501-6-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480690505-21501-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
* gnu/packages/docbook.scm (dblatex)[arguments]: Detail comment about why
the use of setuptools needs to be disabled.
---
gnu/packages/docbook.scm | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
index f54e031..46041c2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm
@@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ by no means limited to these applications.) This package provides XML DTDs.")
("libxslt" ,libxslt))) ;for xsltproc
(arguments
`(#:python ,python-2 ;'print' syntax
- ;; XXX: Disable usage of setuptools, even though it is supported.
- ;; This causes an invalid "package_base" in out/bin/.dblatex-real
- ;; due to a missing leading '/'. See this thread for details:
+ ;; Using setuptools causes an invalid "package_base" path in
+ ;; out/bin/.dblatex-real due to a missing leading '/'. This is caused
+ ;; by dblatex's setup.py stripping the root path when creating the
+ ;; script. (dblatex's setup.py still uses distutils and thus has to
+ ;; create the script by itself. The feature for creating scripts is one
+ ;; of setuptools' features.)
+ ;; See this thread for details:
;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00030.html
#:use-setuptools? #f
#:tests? #f ;no 'test' command
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-02 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-02 14:55 [PATCH 0/5] Fixes for packages with new python build sytem Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/5] gnu: calibre: Do not use python setuptools for building Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/5] gnu: python-numpydoc: Correct inputs Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/5] gnu: python2-ipython: Fix inputs Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/5] gnu: python-numpy: " Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-02 14:55 ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2016-12-02 15:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] Fixes for packages with new python build sytem Marius Bakke
2016-12-02 17:08 ` Hartmut Goebel
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