bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Asymptote only succeeds building randomly on Berlin.  On my machine, it
systematically fails with

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$ guix build --check --no-grafts asymptote
[...]
starting phase `install'
if test ! -s revision.cc || test "2.61" != "2.61"; then \
  echo "const char *REVISION="\"2.61\"\; > revision.cc; \
  echo const char *AsyGLVersion=\"1.00\"\; >> revision.cc; \
  if test ! -e base/webgl/asygl.js; then \
    cp base/webgl/asygl-1.00.js base/webgl/asygl.js; \
  fi \
fi
g++ -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DUSEGC  -pthread -DFFTWPP_SINGLE_THREAD  -I/gnu/store/3xs3dnc28p9fi8in7hkfcdx20incrdvq-libgc-7.6.12/include/gc -I/usr/include/tirpc -std=c++11 -g -O3 -fno-var-tracking -o revision.o -c revision.cc;
echo string VERSION=\"2.61\"\; > base/version.asy
echo @set VERSION 2.61 > doc/version.texi
echo @set Datadir /gnu/store/6x374bczmq65fr7qglqxwjhhwlqjlyq1-asymptote-2.61/share >> doc/version.texi
echo "#!/usr/bin/env python3" > GUI/xasyVersion.py
echo xasyVersion = \"2.61\" >> GUI/xasyVersion.py
if test -n ""; then \
  cat asy.rc | sed -e "s/ASYMPTOTE_VERSION/2.61/" | \
  windres -o asy.o; \
fi
if test -n ""; then \
          g++ -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DUSEGC  -pthread -DFFTWPP_SINGLE_THREAD  -I/gnu/store/3xs3dnc28p9fi8in7hkfcdx20incrdvq-libgc-7.6.12/include/gc -I/usr/include/tirpc -std=c++11 -g -O3 -fno-var-tracking -o asy camperror.o path.o drawpath.o drawlabel.o picture.o psfile.o texfile.o util.o settings.o guide.o flatguide.o knot.o drawfill.o path3.o drawpath3.o drawsurface.o beziercurve.o bezierpatch.o pen.o pipestream.o types.o builtin.o gsl.o runtime.o runbacktrace.o runpicture.o runlabel.o runhistory.o runarray.o runfile.o runsystem.o runpair.o runtriple.o runpath.o runpath3d.o runstring.o runmath.o env.o genv.o stm.o dec.o errormsg.o callable.o name.o symbol.o entry.o exp.o newexp.o stack.o camp.tab.o lex.yy.o access.o virtualfieldaccess.o absyn.o record.o interact.o fileio.o fftw++asy.o simpson.o coder.o coenv.o impdatum.o locate.o parser.o program.o application.o varinit.o fundec.o refaccess.o envcompleter.o process.o constructor.o array.o Delaunay.o predicates.o PRCbitStream.o oPRCFile.o PRCdouble.o writePRC.o glrender.o tr.o shaders.o jsfile.o main.o revision.o asy.o    glew.o  -lglut -lrt -lz -L/gnu/store/3xs3dnc28p9fi8in7hkfcdx20incrdvq-libgc-7.6.12/lib -lgc -lreadline  -ltermcap -lfftw3 -lgsl -lgslcblas -lGL    -lgdi32 -lwinmm -s -static; \
else \
  ln -sf GUI/xasy.py xasy; \
  g++ -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DUSEGC  -pthread -DFFTWPP_SINGLE_THREAD  -I/gnu/store/3xs3dnc28p9fi8in7hkfcdx20incrdvq-libgc-7.6.12/include/gc -I/usr/include/tirpc -std=c++11 -g -O3 -fno-var-tracking -o asy camperror.o path.o drawpath.o drawlabel.o picture.o psfile.o texfile.o util.o settings.o guide.o flatguide.o knot.o drawfill.o path3.o drawpath3.o drawsurface.o beziercurve.o bezierpatch.o pen.o pipestream.o types.o builtin.o gsl.o runtime.o runbacktrace.o runpicture.o runlabel.o runhistory.o runarray.o runfile.o runsystem.o runpair.o runtriple.o runpath.o runpath3d.o runstring.o runmath.o env.o genv.o stm.o dec.o errormsg.o callable.o name.o symbol.o entry.o exp.o newexp.o stack.o camp.tab.o lex.yy.o access.o virtualfieldaccess.o absyn.o record.o interact.o fileio.o fftw++asy.o simpson.o coder.o coenv.o impdatum.o locate.o parser.o program.o application.o varinit.o fundec.o refaccess.o envcompleter.o process.o constructor.o array.o Delaunay.o predicates.o PRCbitStream.o oPRCFile.o PRCdouble.o writePRC.o glrender.o tr.o shaders.o jsfile.o main.o revision.o   glew.o  -lglut -lrt -lz -L/gnu/store/3xs3dnc28p9fi8in7hkfcdx20incrdvq-libgc-7.6.12/lib -lgc -lreadline -lncurses -lfftw3 -lgsl -lgslcblas -lGL   ; \
fi
Creating asy-keywords.el
./asy -dir base -config "" -render=0 -l > asy.list
ls base/*.asy | grep -v plain\* | \
          grep -v three_\* | grep -v featpost3D | xargs ./asy -dir base -config "" -render=0 -l >> asy.list
perl ./asy-list.pl asy.list 2.61
cd doc && make asy-latex.pdf
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-asymptote-2.61.drv-0/asymptote-2.61/doc'
pdflatex asy-latex.dtx
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./asy-latex.dtx
LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 2
(/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/docstrip.tex
Utility: `docstrip' 2.5e <2014/09/29>
English documentation    <2017/03/13>

**********************************************************
* This program converts documented macro-files into fast *
* loadable files by stripping off (nearly) all comments! *
**********************************************************

********************************************************
* No Configuration file found, using default settings. *
********************************************************

)Input index file asy-latex.idx not found.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]
system returned with code 256
Input index file asy-latex.glo not found.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]
system returned with code 256


Generating file(s) ./asymptote.sty 

Processing file asy-latex.dtx (pkg) -> asymptote.sty
Lines  processed: 722
Comments removed: 282
Comments  passed: 0
Codelines passed: 424


Generating file(s) ./asy-latex.ins 

Processing file asy-latex.dtx (batchfile) -> asy-latex.ins
Lines  processed: 722
Comments removed: 282
Comments  passed: 0
Codelines passed: 424

(/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ltxdoc.cls
Document Class: ltxdoc 2018/03/15 v2.0x Standard LaTeX documentation class
(/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/doc.sty (/gnu/store/21mmsf9y6wjb1lj8kphdc1mqdgp00xrd-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty)))
Writing index file asy-latex.idx
No file asy-latex.aux.
(./asy-latex.dtx
! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
\endtabular ->\crcr \egroup \egroup $
                                     \egroup 
l.60 % \maketitle
                 
? 
! Emergency stop.
\endtabular ->\crcr \egroup \egroup $
                                     \egroup 
l.60 % \maketitle
                 
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on asy-latex.log.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:20: asy-latex.pdf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-asymptote-2.61.drv-0/asymptote-2.61/doc'
make: *** [Makefile:183: sty] Error 2
command "make" "install" failed with status 2
builder for `/gnu/store/n96jkms4b54jl7g261qk9ykrx6pdfdrl-asymptote-2.61.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/n96jkms4b54jl7g261qk9ykrx6pdfdrl-asymptote-2.61.drv failed
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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Hi Pierre,

> Asymptote only succeeds building randomly on Berlin.  On my 
> machine, it
> systematically fails with
[…]
> ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

Lars and I just ran into this problem with python-nbconvert after 
I changed it to use texlive-union.  It built just fine on our 
respective laptops, but it would fail on ci.guix.gnu.org and 
another build farm.

Because TeX is a mystery to me I resorted to running the failing 
xelatex invocation under strace on ci.guix.gnu.org and my laptop 
to see where they diverge.  LaTeX looks for fonts by reading the 
“share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/” directory in the texlive-union; on 
the different machines the order of directories differed.  On my 
laptop LaTeX would find the fonts provided by texlive-cm first; on 
the build farms it would find the fonts provided by 
texlive-amsfonts first.

The immediate problem here was that texlive-amsfonts accidentally 
produced too many fonts — not just those it should but also 
conversions of files from its own inputs, including those provided 
by texlive-cm.  So I added texlive-amsfonts/patched in commit 
9db67988242ad514fa900e840b1494bda6001d6b (we can’t change 
texlive-amsfonts on the “master” branch) and rebuilt 
python-nbconvert with that new texlive-union.  Now that there are 
no duplicate fonts, LaTeX won’t find the wrong font first and the 
build succeeded.

I’m suspecting that its the same problem with asymptote.

Could you please try this patch and report back?  It builds fine 
for me.


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diff --git a/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm b/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm
index 7f59bae770..4b89ddafd1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ colors, styles, options and details.")
        ("perl" ,perl)
        ("texinfo" ,texinfo)             ;For generating documentation
        ;; For the manual and the tests.
-       ("texlive" ,(texlive-union (list texlive-amsfonts
+       ("texlive" ,(texlive-union (list texlive-amsfonts/patched
                                         texlive-epsf
                                         texlive-etoolbox
                                         texlive-latex-base

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Thanks!

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Ricardo

bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi Ricardo,

Excellent investigation, and it turns out that it did the trick for
Asymptote!  Feel free to patch it.

Thank you so much!

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Excellent investigation, and it turns out that it did the trick 
> for
> Asymptote!  Feel free to patch it.

Great!  It’s fixed with commit 
41bbbd53d2a4b8ad059c9a943e28fe7dda479149.

-- 
Ricardo

bug#39101: asymptote build fails: Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Thanks a lot!

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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