[Reproduce-devel] [bug #56733] Biber linking problem when building paper's references

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?56733>

                 Summary: Biber linking problem when building paper's
references
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Thu 08 Aug 2019 04:11:37 PM BST
                Category: Analysis
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

So far TexLive is the only package that we don't install from source, we just
use Texlive's own package manager to download the proper binary files for the
user's architecture. 

Because of this we recently confronted this error on a system:


biber: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory


Indeed, when I check the libraries that the Texlive Biber links with, I see
this:


$ ldd .local/bin/biber
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff727fd000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa1ed6e3000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007fa1ed6c8000)
        libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa1ed6c3000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa1ed57d000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fa1ed543000)
        libutil.so.1 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa1ed53e000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa1ed379000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
(0x00007fa1ed73a000)


So its not just libnsl, but libcrypt is another high-level library that can
cause a similar crash.

This is very bad and in task #15267 (Building TeXLive from source) we plan to
fix this problem. But that will be a long task, because TeX packages have
their own unique style of building which I don't have time to implement within
the pipeline now.

In a recent commit
<http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/reproduce.git/commit/?id=63d382c>, I
added `libnsl' (and its dependencies of `libtirpc' and `rpcsvc') to the
template, but unfortunately they are an updated version and there is no
guarantee when the Texlive builders decide to update their dependency on the
libraries.

Until then, we'll have to ask any user that confronts this problem to either
ignore a LaTeX PDF output, or install libnsl and libcrypt manually using their
system's package manager. For example on Red-hat based GNU/Linux machines they
should run this command:


sudo dnf install libnsl libxcrypt-compat





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