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Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Mon Jan 11 20:13:54 EST 2016


Sanjeev,

Can you pastebin a full list of packages you have installed?
I'll build a VM and install same and see if I can replicate your failures
and try to get rid of them and get them to skip instead.

-Bill

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> +1 on fixing tests so they don't fail because packages/tools aren't
> installed.
>
> For the Tex stuff I don't know which tools are needed, can someone who
> knows take a look?
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:09 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Alright, now I have 71 failing, so at least I am on the same page.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 21:07 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
>>> >
>>> […]
>>> > looks like the failing TeX testcases aren't protected properly
>>> > against not having "latex" installed and in the $PATH. Not sure if
>>> > you really want to go that route and install a full TeXLive version
>>> > (or similar).
>>>
>>> Rather than installing TexLive shouldn't we fix the SCons tests?
>>>
>>> I have and need the full TeXLive distribution so I can never check
>>> these sorts of things locally.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we should have a programme whenever something like this happens
>>> of fixing the tests before getting people to install stuff.
>>>
>>> SCons tests should only ever have skipped tests (even if there are 1000
>>> of them), never failing ones, no matter what the installation set of
>>> the test host.
>>>
>>> > For DocBook you would need to install the XSLT stylesheets and put a
>>> > link to them from
>>> >
>>> >    /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl
>>> >
>>> > and also install the Python XML bindings libxml2/libxslt or lxml,
>>> > respectively.
>>>
>>> And on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/… all the rest of the stuff that gets pulled
>>> in. :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Russel.
>>>
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