Hi Thiago, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerm...@kolabnow.com> 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, Maxim
