From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [core-updates] texlive 2021 bootstrap problem
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:34:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2ayy5vk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1684007.ACNhq4djJS@popigai> (Thiago Jung Bauermann's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:53:04 -0300")
Hello Thiago,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> writes:
[...]
> I decided to ask on the TeX Live mailing list about the bootstrap problem¹
> (not sure why this didn’t occur to me earlier). It turns out it’s not a
> real circular dependency, it just appears so because of Guix packaging.
>
> It’s possible to build texlive-latex-l3kernel with IniTeX (i.e., by calling
> `pdftex -ini` or `tex -ini`) and docstrip, without any format loaded.
It was worth it to ask :-).
> So I made some changes to texlive-build-system to that, and it worked. By
> which I mean: the texlive-latex-l3kernel package builds, and the texlive-
> latex-base build is attempted and fails in the same way as it was failing
> when I sent the last email, when generating latex formats. I think I’m
> missing some file(s) with definitions for LaTeX macros, but I don’t know yet.
>
> I pushed a new branch “bug-48064-texlive-2021-l3kernel-initex” to my GitLab
> repo at https://gitlab.com/bauermann/guix.git with two patches implementing
> the new approach.
I had a cursory look at the commits; they look good to me! And the
commit messages are very useful in understanding the hows and whys.
Make sure to send them to guix-patches@gnu.org after you are satisfied
with the result!
Happy hacking,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 19:00 [core-updates] texlive 2021 bootstrap problem Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-06-22 0:43 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-06-24 18:26 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-06-24 20:53 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-06-25 3:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2021-06-25 5:00 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-06-29 20:43 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-06-30 16:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-07-05 0:24 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
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