Re: [can't compile the main branch]

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> But before investing time on Uwe's scenario: Stefan, do you know why
>> no new devel release has been built so far?
>
> You've presumably received copies (via auctex-devel) of the build
> error notification.

Oh, indeed. :-)

> The original problem was that elpa.gnu.org did not have TeX installed.
> After fixing it there was another problem of access rights when
> running TeX.  I believe it is now fixed and it should get built within
> the next 6 hours.  Knocking on wood.  🙂

Sadly, the last build failed with the same error as the previous one:

======== Building tarball auctex.tar...
Build error for auctex.tar: (error "Error-indicating exit code in 
elpaa--call-sandboxed:
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/elpa/elpa/packages/auctex'
(cd doc; makeinfo -D rawfile --no-headers intro.texi --output -) >README
(cd doc; makeinfo -D rawfile --no-headers preview-readme.texi --output -) >> 
README
sed -e 's|@lisppackagelispdir@|(file-name-directory load-file-name)|'\\
    -e 's|@lisppackagedatadir@|(file-name-directory load-file-name)|'\\
    -e 's|@lispautodir@|(if (file-writable-p \"/usr/local/var/auctex\")
\"/usr/local/var/auctex\" \"~/.emacs.d/auctex\")|'\\
    -e 's|@AUCTEXVERSION@|14.0.4.2024-04-23_17:52:06|'\\
    -e 's|@AUCTEXDATE@|2024-04-23_17:52:06|'\\
    tex-site.el.in >tex-site.el
echo @set VERSION 14.0.4.2024-04-23_17:52:06 >doc/version.texi
echo @set UPDATED 2024-04-23_17:52:06 >>doc/version.texi
perl doc/preview-dtxdoc.pl latex/preview.dtx doc/preview-dtxdoc.texi
cd latex; tex '\\nonstopmode \\input bootstrap.ins'
This is TeX, Version 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2022/Debian) (preloaded format=tex)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence 
order):
mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
mktexfmt:   /home/elpa/.texlive2022/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
mktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under /home/elpa/.texlive2022/texmf-var/web2c
mktexfmt [INFO]: Did not find entry for byfmt=tex skipped
mktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 0
mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0
I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:116: latex/preview.sty] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/elpa/elpa/packages/auctex'
")
######## Build of package auctex.tar FAILED!!

Bye,
  Tassilo