Hi Josh,
> I had a quick look into fixing this myself, and made a little bit > of progress. Not being that familiar with how things work yet, > I'm going on what I can guess by looking at gnu/packages/tex.scm, > guix/build-system/texlive.scm and guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm > so I may well be misinterpreting some things. > > The source for polyglossia comes in a single file, polyglossia.dtx. > The README embedded within it says to extract the files by running > xetex or luatex on it. I tried to convince the build system to do > this by this patch, which may or may not have been the right approach. Thanks for giving it a try. The build system works on “ins” files by default. I guess it should try “dtx” files as well. > It does at least get a new error: > > Generating file(s) ../README > ! I can't write on file `../README.tex'. > > It appears to be trying to write its README file to the directory above > the build directory, which is failing. Is there a way to make this > directory writeable, or to stop the build system from trying to generate > the README there? We can patch the dtx file in a build phase and replace “../README” with just “README”. We can’t write to the parent of the build directory, and extracting everything a level deeper seems wrong. What do you think? -- Ricardo
