texlive-build-system: phase `build' failed

texlive-build-system: phase `build' failed

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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I'm working on a bunch of TeXlive packages and I keep running into a few
issues.

1. Does anyone know how to search for the path of a package in TeXlive's
tree without checking out the whole SVN repo?
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/tags/texlive-2017.1/ is not so convenient
to browse.

2. Are the package dependencies documented?  For instance
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/needspace requires microtype to build properly,
but that does not seem to be mentioned anywhere on CTAN.

3. The most important issue: I can't get "texlive-build-system" to work.
For instance:

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(define-public texlive-latex-microtype
  (package
    (name "texlive-latex-microtype")
    (version (number->string %texlive-revision))
    (source (origin
              (method svn-fetch)
              (uri (texlive-ref "latex" "microtype"))
              (file-name (string-append name "-" version "-checkout"))
              (sha256
               (base32
                "1dwhlxy35bydlljb40ck6d5j93gd4889hpr4j3x8vqhl46k3lfph"))))
    (build-system texlive-build-system)
    (arguments '(#:tex-directory "latex/microtype"))
    (home-page "https://www.ctan.org/pkg/microtype")
    (synopsis "Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection")
    (description
     "Foo")
    (license license:lppl1.3c+)))
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fails with

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[...]
starting phase `build'
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017)
 restricted system commands enabled.
phase `build' failed after 1.7 seconds
[...]
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And nothing else.  Looking at
`/tmp/guix-build-texlive-latex-microtype-44591.drv-1/source/build/microtype.log`
it seems that everything went fine.

Any clue what I'm missing?  Otherwise I'll dig deeper in the definition
of texlive-build-system.

--
Pierre Neidhardt

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Re: texlive-build-system: phase `build' failed

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Pierre,

> I'm working on a bunch of TeXlive packages and I keep running into a few
> issues.

Thank you for giving this a try!  Working on TeXlive packages has been
the most frustrating experience for me.

> 1. Does anyone know how to search for the path of a package in TeXlive's
> tree without checking out the whole SVN repo?
> http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/tags/texlive-2017.1/ is not so convenient
> to browse.

I actually downloaded the whole SVN repository.  It is not organised in
a consistent way, so it’s difficult to find the correct directory in all
cases.

> 2. Are the package dependencies documented?  For instance
> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/needspace requires microtype to build properly,
> but that does not seem to be mentioned anywhere on CTAN.

Sometimes they are documented.  Often they are not.  If the importer
(which would check https://ctan.org/xml/1.2/pkg/needspace) doesn’t show
you anything, then this information can only be inferred from the .ins
files.

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [...]
> starting phase `build'
> This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017)
>  restricted system commands enabled.
> phase `build' failed after 1.7 seconds
> [...]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If you want to get more verbose output you need to override
“"-interaction=batchmode"” with “"-interaction=nonstopmode"” in
“compile-with-latex” in “(guix build texlive-build-system)”.

Unfortunately, there is no convenient switch in the
texlive-build-system to control this.  Changing the texlive-build-system
requires a rebuild of *all* these packages, but usually this doesn’t
take a long time.

--
Ricardo

Re: texlive-build-system: phase `build' failed

[Gábor Boskovits]

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. máj. 28., H
19:44):

>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> > I'm working on a bunch of TeXlive packages and I keep running into a few
> > issues.
>
> Thank you for giving this a try!  Working on TeXlive packages has been
> the most frustrating experience for me.
>
> > 1. Does anyone know how to search for the path of a package in TeXlive's
> > tree without checking out the whole SVN repo?
> > http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/tags/texlive-2017.1/ is not so convenient
> > to browse.
>
> I actually downloaded the whole SVN repository.  It is not organised in
> a consistent way, so it’s difficult to find the correct directory in all
> cases.
>
> > 2. Are the package dependencies documented?  For instance
> > https://www.ctan.org/pkg/needspace requires microtype to build properly,
> > but that does not seem to be mentioned anywhere on CTAN.
>
> Sometimes they are documented.  Often they are not.  If the importer
> (which would check https://ctan.org/xml/1.2/pkg/needspace) doesn’t show
> you anything, then this information can only be inferred from the .ins
> files.
>
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > [...]
> > starting phase `build'
> > This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017)
> >  restricted system commands enabled.
> > phase `build' failed after 1.7 seconds
> > [...]
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> If you want to get more verbose output you need to override
> “"-interaction=batchmode"” with “"-interaction=nonstopmode"” in
> “compile-with-latex” in “(guix build texlive-build-system)”.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no convenient switch in the
> texlive-build-system to control this.  Changing the texlive-build-system
> requires a rebuild of *all* these packages, but usually this doesn’t
> take a long time.
>

Can we consider adding such a switch to this build system? It seems to be
useful...

> --
> Ricardo
>
>

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