Hello,
De Maxim Cournoyer le 14/10/2023 à 18:06:
> > I tried to explore this but I see no reason why the ls-R files would be
> > ignored and I don't know how to explore this further. I do want to
> > contribute
> > to a solution, because right now texlive is practically unusable in Guix.
>
> Have you tried tracing execution with strace? Maybe try 'strace -e
> file -f -s800 $texlive-cmd' and confirm whether the ls-R file gets used;
> if it does, you could then introspect said file to see if it provides
> what is being looked up or not.
I did try strace, that is how I observed that apparently all installed files
are stated (with newfstatat) several times in each compilation.
The ls-R file is actually read:
$ grep /ls-R log
28308
access("/run/current-system/profile/share/texmf-dist/../texmf-dist/ls-R", R_OK)
= 0
28308 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD,
"/run/current-system/profile/share/texmf-dist/../texmf-dist/ls-R",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4053996, ...}, 0) = 0
28308 openat(AT_FDCWD,
"/run/current-system/profile/share/texmf-dist/../texmf-dist/ls-R", O_RDONLY) = 3
but aparently its contents are not taken into account.
--
Emmanuel
