texlive failure

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

Hi,

I have trouble downloading the 3.3GB 'texlive-data' package and
therefore I'm trying to build it locally. The 'build' and 'check'
phases succeed. However, after the 'compress-documentation' phase a
guile process stays at 100% for 1 hour, after which the process times
out and is killed.

This is the 'tail' of the output:

[...]
starting phase `compress-documentation'
compressing documentation in
'/gnu/store/3vxysgl09laha9k2vhq0li8ijfqnnpn7-texlive-2014/share/man'
with "gzip" and flags ("--best" "--no-name")
compressing documentation in
'/gnu/store/3vxysgl09laha9k2vhq0li8ijfqnnpn7-texlive-2014/share/info'
with "gzip" and flags ("--best" "--no-name")
phase `compress-documentation' succeeded after 0 seconds

After this there is no more output.

The content of the documentation directories is less than 1MB and I
can see that all man and info pages are compressed long before the
process times out. This is reproducible as I tried 3 times.

Any idea?

Regards,
Fede