[bug#31819] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: gtk-doc: Update to 1.27.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Danny,

> Because our texlive-union dynamically generates metafont stuff, it
> prints a LOT more status lines (metafont outputs a lot).
>
> Is it possible to silence metafont?  Or to have it generate the fonts
> before the tests run?  Or should we just disable the test?

The fact that it generates the fonts *again* is a problem I haven’t yet
been able to fix in texlive-union.  This should not happen, because the
fonts should already be there after the specific texlive union package
has been built.  The big texlive package did not have this behaviour.

This annoying behaviour also led me to add (setenv "HOME" …) expressions
to build phases in some packages after switching from “texlive” to
“texlive-union” or “texlive-tiny”, because that’s where the dynamically
generated fonts end up.

I don’t see how we can silence it in general.

--
Ricardo