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Modular texlive has problems finding fonts

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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52979: closed (Modular texlive has problems finding fonts)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:30:02 +0000

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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Modular texlive has problems finding fonts
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:18:01 +0100

As discussed on #guix on IRC, several folks including myself ran into
issues getting the following some-file.tex:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Hello friends
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

... to typeset with the following manifest.scm:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(specifications->manifest
 '("texlive-base"
   "texlive-fonts-ec"
   "texlive-amsfonts"
   "texlive-fira"
   "texlive-inconsolata"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

... with command: 
`guix shell --pure coreutils grep sed gawk -m manifest.scm -- pdflatex some-file

Note that the monolithic texlive seems to work:
`guix shell --pure coreutils grep sed gawk texlive -- pdflatex some-file'

On IRC, rekado /w strace identified that texlive does not seem to be
entering the subdirectory containing the font files, as it seems to be
loading texlive-bin's texmf.cnf, instead of the one generated by
`(@ (guix profiles) texlive-configuration)'.

It seems some of the talks in the guix-maintenance repository can
currently also not be built for the same or similar reason.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: 52979-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52979: Modular texlive has problems finding fonts
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:28:17 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> So, two things to do here:
>
> 1) patch mktexpk, mktexnam, mktexnam.opt,
> share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexupd, et al to find “sed” and “awk”.

Done.

> 2) figure out why pdflatex tries to use bitmap fonts at all when other
> files exist.

Not done, but the problem has gone away after fixing the former problem.

This now works on wip-texlive, which I just pushed.

-- 
Ricardo

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