From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: dblatex: Update comment. Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1480690505-21501-6-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> References: <1480690505-21501-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCpFB-0003Hj-Mo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:55:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCpF7-0003Jx-ET for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:55:21 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:46561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCpF7-0003HA-8k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:55:17 -0500 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3tVcdc1BWKz3hn17 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3tVcdc13vKzvm0t for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rW5aabm7uHG8 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from hermia.goebel-consult.de (ppp-188-174-150-110.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.150.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from lenashee.goebel-consult.de (lenashee.goebel-consult.de [192.168.110.2]) by hermia.goebel-consult.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4948460787 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:06 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1480690505-21501-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org * 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