scallywag zp_texlive_finish.dash failing exit code 2 rebuilding installed formats
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Aug 24 14:57:48 GMT 2021
On 8/23/2021 8:26 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-08-23 15:08, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 8/23/2021 2:46 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2021-08-22 16:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> OK, your later messages explain it better. I'll have to look at
>>>> texlive-collection-formatsextra; it's possible that it needs to require
>>>> texlive-collection-fontsrecommended. But a better solution to your
>>>> immediate problem would be for someone to look at docbook-utils and see
>>>> whether it really needs texlive-collection-formatsextra. It currently
>>>> requires the obsolete texlive-collection-htmlxml, which pulls in a lot of
>>>> other packages, probably unnecessarily in most cases. See
>>>> https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/texlive-collection-htmlxml.html
>
>>> That would require a TeX-y who knows the TeX relationships of the files.
>>> From what I can see jadetex and pdfjadtex are used by docbook-utils,
>
>> OK, so docbook-utils definitely needs texlive-collection-formatsextra, which
>> is what I hoped to avoid. In that case, it's probably not worth checking
>> whether it needs the other dependencies of texlive-collection-htmlxml.
>> And jadetex needs texlive-collection-fontsrecommended for marvosym, so I need
>> to fix the dependencies of texlive-collection-formatsextra. I'll do that
>> shortly.
>
> Thanks Ken
>
>> Thanks for reporting the problem.
>
> I will trim back the BUILD_REQUIRES to ...formatsextra (and ...plaingeneric? for
> html?) without other additions to see if zp_texlive_finish.dash completes under
> scallywag and also whether the package builds with just those packages.
Why do you need explicit texlive build dependencies at all? If what you really
need is docbook-utils, you should just require it and let it pull in whatever
texlive collections are needed. This should work now that I've fixed formatsextra.
Ken
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