jraygauthier
commented
8 years ago A solution to the problem
Looking at both nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive-new/combine's wrapping
of tex executables:
export PATH="$out/bin:$out/share/texmf/scripts/texlive:${perl}/bin:$PATH"
export TEXMFCNF="$out/share/texmf/web2c"
export TEXMFDIST="$out/share/texmf"
export TEXMFSYSCONFIG="$out/share/texmf-config"
export TEXMFSYSVAR="$out/share/texmf-var"
export PERL5LIB="$out/share/texmf/scripts/texlive"and at my $out/share
(/nix/store/wj0wjsm8qywdkb53n1dlwnnng1ayhz01-texlive-combined-2015/share in my case),
for which:
$ ls -la
total 24
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 .
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 info
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 man
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 texmf
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root nixbld 4096 Dec 31 1969 texmf-varand also at $out/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf's environement variable
order of assignment:
TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}reveal that the TEXMFCONFIG env var is that one that is taken as the location
of the tex distro. Looking back at both the wrapper assigned value for this
variable (export TEXMFSYSCONFIG="$out/share/texmf-config") and ls result
also reveal that it point to a location that doesn't exists.
So I decided to proceed to a small experiment:
mkdir bin
cp -rp -t ./bin /nix/store/wj0wjsm8qywdkb53n1dlwnnng1ayhz01-texlive-combined-2015/bin/*
chmod a+rw ./bin/*
for f in ./bin/*; do sed -i -e "s#/nix/store/wj0wjsm8qywdkb53n1dlwnnng1ayhz01-texlive-combined-2015/bin#$HOME/dev/cv/pandoc_resume/bin#" -e 's#texmf-config#texmf#' "$f"; done
export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
# Run the previously failing program.
make pdfwhich finally fixed the problem. Now, previously hanging make pdf completes its
task.
I can see two different solutions to the problem:
-
Fix
TEXMFCONFIG's wrapper value assignment expression toexport TEXMFSYSCONFIG="$out/share/texmf"as done in the small experiment.This risk breaking other tex environments that rely on
$out/share/texmf-configcontaining something different than$out/share/texmf. - When
$out/share/texmf-configdoes not exist, create it as a symbolic link that points to$out/share/texmf.
I shall work on a pull request that fixes the problem using one of these solutions. Meanwhile, it would be appreciate to get feedback that can steer my choice toward one of the other.
abbradar
Issue description
Seem to never finish its search. It seems wrong that this tool should search such global location. It is as tough a recursive search from child to parent dir is ongoing. Maybe an environment variable is not set properly? Maybe I should add other packages in my
texlive.combinefunction?As you can see, everything in
context's wrapper seem in order:Could reproduce on both stable (02/02/2016, e83aed4c10b05339329f4ca13414c59036563d0e) and unstable (27/03/2016, d88ae1045d37f8cd1b3428617670f7358eb45a29).
Steps to reproduce
The data:
The env:
First thing out of order:
And now the hanging scan issue:
Also noticed to following error during the environement build which does not seem to have stopped it:
Technical details
15.09.git.1f761bc (Dingo)nix-env (Nix) 1.10