documentation: pdf generation is broken

ng0 wrote on 22 Apr 2017 13:09

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As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentationas pdf. What's wrong with it?
[user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting. make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1
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Chris Marusich wrote on 23 Apr 2017 06:14

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ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:

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> As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation> as pdf. What's wrong with it?>> [user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf> TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf> /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.> make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1

I looked into this a week or two ago. I think we're waiting for a newerrelease of automake? Perhaps John Darrington knows more. See thisemail thread, which I found at the time and seems to contain therelevant information:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg01074.html
-- Chris

ng0 wrote on 23 Apr 2017 18:15

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Toggle quote (20 lines)> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:> > > As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation> > as pdf. What's wrong with it?> >> > [user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf> >   TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf> >   /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.> >   make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1> > I looked into this a week or two ago.  I think we're waiting for a newer> release of automake?  Perhaps John Darrington knows more.  See this> email thread, which I found at the time and seems to contain the> relevant information:> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg01074.html> > -- > Chris

Oh, right… I've seen this scroll by some time ago.Okay, since there is no associated open bug (at least with theobvious keywords), I'll leave this bug open and oncethe .pdf generates again it can be closed.
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Chris Marusich wrote on 23 Apr 2017 20:42

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ng0@pragmatique.xyz writes:

Toggle quote (26 lines)> Chris Marusich transcribed 1.7K bytes:>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:>> >> > As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation>> > as pdf. What's wrong with it?>> >>> > [user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf>> >   TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf>> >   /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.>> >   make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1>> >> I looked into this a week or two ago.  I think we're waiting for a newer>> release of automake?  Perhaps John Darrington knows more.  See this>> email thread, which I found at the time and seems to contain the>> relevant information:>> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg01074.html>> >> -- >> Chris>> Oh, right… I've seen this scroll by some time ago.> Okay, since there is no associated open bug (at least with the> obvious keywords), I'll leave this bug open and once> the .pdf generates again it can be closed.

Sounds good. I guess I should have opened up a bug report myself.Thank you for doing it!
-- Chris

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 5 May 2017 20:53

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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

Toggle quote (13 lines)> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:>>> As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation>> as pdf. What's wrong with it?>>>> [user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf>>   TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf>>   /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.>>   make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1>> I looked into this a week or two ago.  I think we're waiting for a newer> release of automake?

AFAIK the ‘texinfo.tex’ file that Automake 1.15 installs is good enough,as shown byhttps://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/guix-0.12.0-9.25a4.x86_64-linuxhttps://hydra.gnu.org/build/2017216/log/raw.
Can you try running “autoreconf -vfi” with Automake 1.15 installed?
FWIW, I have:

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$ grep def.texinfoversion build-aux/texinfo.tex \def\texinfoversion{2016-09-18.18}$ grep def.texinfoversion $(find $(guix build automake) -name texinfo.tex)\def\texinfoversion{2013-02-01.11}$ grep def.texinfoversion ~/src/gnulib/build-aux/texinfo.tex \def\texinfoversion{2017-04-14.11}$ (cd ~/src/gnulib/ ; git describe)v0.1-1312-ga87d5e5c6

HTH,Ludo’.

zimoun wrote on 28 Sep 2020 21:57

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Dear,
On Fri, 05 May 2017 at 20:53, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

Toggle quote (20 lines)> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>>> As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation>>> as pdf. What's wrong with it?>>>>>> [user@abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf>>>   TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf>>>   /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex>>> exited with bad status, quitting.>>>   make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1>>>> I looked into this a week or two ago.  I think we're waiting for a newer>> release of automake?>> AFAIK the ‘texinfo.tex’ file that Automake 1.15 installs is good enough,> as shown by> <https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/guix-0.12.0-9.25a4.x86_64-linux>> <https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2017216/log/raw>.

I do not know what I miss but I get this error:

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$ guix environment -C guix --ad-hoc texlive-base texlive-fonts-ec[env]$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var/ && make[env]$ make doc/guix.pdf TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+3/600 --dpi 603 ecrm1095mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+3/600; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded base=mf)
(/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm1095.mf (/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exbase.mf) (/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm.mf (/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exroman.mf Ok (/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exaccess.mf
[...]
Ok [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57]) (/gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exrligtb.mf Ok) ) ) )(some charht values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.07599pt)Font metrics written on ecrm1095.tfm.Output written on ecrm1095.603gf (256 characters, 55528 bytes).Transcript written on ecrm1095.log.mktexpk: /home/simon/src/guix/wk/emacs-vm/doc/guix.t2p/doc!guix.t2d/pdf/build/ecrm1095.603pk: successfully generated./gnu/store/jq35y4na0bciw1i60p9z44aq82dsp5x2-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.make: *** [Makefile:4181: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1

And it is a bit cryptic… What am I doing wrong?

All the best,simon

Andreas Enge wrote on 28 Sep 2020 23:15

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Hello,
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:57:43PM +0200, zimoun wrote:

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> [env]$ make doc/guix.pdf

try this instead:    make V=1 pdfwhich will print what happens.
I have the monolithic texlive package in my profile and building the pdf"almost worked":...doc/images/coreutils-size-map.png>!pdfTeX error: /home/andreas/.guix-profile/bin/pdftex (file doc/images/coreutils-graph.png): reading image file failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
It turns out there are a bunch of empty .png files in doc/images/, withcorresponding non-empty .dot files. I deleted them and installed graphvizinto my profile in the hope that "make pdf" would create the missing.png files, but it does not.
However, the following "almost almost" worked:- remove the empty .png files and install graphviz- "make"- "make pdf"I obtained the English, German, French and Spanish pdf documentation, butthen a lot of complaints about unicode characters for the Russiandocumentation (and "make doc/guix.zh_CN.pdf" also has unicode problems).
Andreas

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 16 Oct 2020 12:13

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Hi,
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

Toggle quote (27 lines)> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:57:43PM +0200, zimoun wrote:>> [env]$ make doc/guix.pdf>> try this instead:>     make V=1 pdf> which will print what happens.>> I have the monolithic texlive package in my profile and building the pdf> "almost worked":> ...> doc/images/coreutils-size-map.png>> !pdfTeX error: /home/andreas/.guix-profile/bin/pdftex (file doc/images/coreutils-graph.png): reading image file failed>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!>> It turns out there are a bunch of empty .png files in doc/images/, with> corresponding non-empty .dot files. I deleted them and installed graphviz> into my profile in the hope that "make pdf" would create the missing> .png files, but it does not.>> However, the following "almost almost" worked:> - remove the empty .png files and install graphviz> - "make"> - "make pdf"> I obtained the English, German, French and Spanish pdf documentation, but> then a lot of complaints about unicode characters for the Russian> documentation (and "make doc/guix.zh_CN.pdf" also has unicode problems).

Simon, can you close the issue if this is fine on your side as well?
Maybe it’s a matter (as usual…) of choosing the right texlive-* packages.
Thanks,Ludo’.

zimoun wrote on 16 Oct 2020 13:16

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Hi,
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 12:13, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

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> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:57:43PM +0200, zimoun wrote:> >> [env]$ make doc/guix.pdf> >> > try this instead:> > make V=1 pdf> > which will print what happens.

Thanks for the tip.

Toggle quote (22 lines)> > I have the monolithic texlive package in my profile and building the pdf> > "almost worked":> > ...> > doc/images/coreutils-size-map.png>> > !pdfTeX error: /home/andreas/.guix-profile/bin/pdftex (file doc/images/coreutils-graph.png): reading image file failed> >  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!> >> > It turns out there are a bunch of empty .png files in doc/images/, with> > corresponding non-empty .dot files. I deleted them and installed graphviz> > into my profile in the hope that "make pdf" would create the missing> > .png files, but it does not.> >> > However, the following "almost almost" worked:> > - remove the empty .png files and install graphviz> > - "make"> > - "make pdf"> > I obtained the English, German, French and Spanish pdf documentation, but> > then a lot of complaints about unicode characters for the Russian> > documentation (and "make doc/guix.zh_CN.pdf" also has unicode problems).>> Simon, can you close the issue if this is fine on your side as well?

Well, it is not satisfactory for me, yet.  It is still "almost almost"and needs some wizardies to work.  At least the doc should be updatedand maybe a manifest file with the correct TeX packages.  I mean wehave modular texlive and we recommend to use it but we do not use itfor our own infrastructure and then we rely on the BIG texlivepackage.  Hum?! :-)

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> Maybe it’s a matter (as usual…) of choosing the right texlive-* packages.

They should be documented at least. (How to find them is another story. ;-))

All the best,simon

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