Hello Thiago, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerm...@kolabnow.com> writes:
[...] > 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. It was worth it to ask :-). > 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. I had a cursory look at the commits; they look good to me! And the commit messages are very useful in understanding the hows and whys. Make sure to send them to guix-patc...@gnu.org after you are satisfied with the result! Happy hacking, Maxim
