Re: Suggestion: disable offloading for texlive builds on hydra?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:12:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> -   (outputs '("out" "data"))
>> +   (outputs '("out" "data" "doc"))
>
> I just tried this, and it does not work:
> builder for `/gnu/store/r39sf9gzfdlxb6q2c4zaz18z63mmc8fz-texlive-2014.drv' 
> failed to produce output path 
> `/gnu/store/s756nm0dcw57h64vimq6bz3hzmf4s40p-texlive-2014-doc'
>
> So I think we need to shuffle things around ourselves. I will try to have a
> look. A problem is that I need a working texlive, and compiling an additional
> one may take too much space (in a leap of confidence, I just deleted my
> texlive before trying the splitting of the docs, but I will not do this again;
> well, using a usb stick for /tmp helps a bit...).

Heh.  :-)

> Apparently, texlive does not honour --docdir=..., although it does not
> complain about the option. I asked about it on the texlive mailing list
> and will wait for a suggestion.

It’s not uncommon to find configure scripts that ignore --docdir et
al. and instead provide their own option.

Thanks for looking into it.

Ludo’.