Hello Maxim, Em quinta-feira, 24 de junho de 2021, às 15:26:55 -03, Maxim Cournoyer escreveu: > Hi Thiago, > > Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email protected]> writes: > > Hello, > > > > Em terça-feira, 15 de junho de 2021, às 16:00:51 -03, Thiago Jung > > Bauermann> > > escreveu: > >> Does anyone have an idea how to break this dependency loop? Do we need > >> to have a package definition for a pre-2019-10 version of LaTeX just > >> to build texlive-latex-l3kernel, and then use that as a dependency > >> for the actual texlive-latex-base package? > > > > I’m pursuing this option. I took the definition of texlive-latex-base > > from the master branch (which doesn’t depend on LaTeX3) and added it > > to my branch as texlive-latex-no-l3 (with a few minor changes to get > > it to build with texlive 2021), and used it as a dependency to build > > texlive-latex- l3kernel. > > > > This worked! Now texlive-latex-l3kernel builds correctly, and the build > > of texlive-latex-base is attempted (instead of just causing Guix to > > max out its heap while trying to process a dependency loop, as it was > > doing before). But the build fails when generating some latex formats > > – a problem I’m still investigating. > > > > But this is progress nevertheless. :-) > > Thumbs up for working and figuring things out for a texlive 2021 > upgrade!
Thank you! I was just going to report on recent developments. It turns out that using an older LaTeX to build texlive-latex-l3kernel isn’t necessary. I decided to ask on the TeX Live mailing list about the bootstrap problem¹ (not sure why this didn’t occur to me earlier). It turns out it’s not a real circular dependency, it just appears so because of Guix packaging. It’s possible to build texlive-latex-l3kernel with IniTeX (i.e., by calling `pdftex -ini` or `tex -ini`) and docstrip, without any format loaded. So I made some changes to texlive-build-system to that, and it worked. By which I mean: the texlive-latex-l3kernel package builds, and the texlive- latex-base build is attempted and fails in the same way as it was failing when I sent the last email, when generating latex formats. I think I’m missing some file(s) with definitions for LaTeX macros, but I don’t know yet. I pushed a new branch “bug-48064-texlive-2021-l3kernel-initex” to my GitLab repo at https://gitlab.com/bauermann/guix.git with two patches implementing the new approach. -- Thanks, Thiago ¹ https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-June/047156.html
