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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

  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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