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bug#64783: biber not in $PATH with texlive only
From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
bug#64783: biber not in $PATH with texlive only |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:32:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Julian Flake <flake@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
> according to your suggestion it would be sufficient to have "texlive"
> to have "all of texlive". Unfortunately, with "texlive" only, I don't
> have "biber" on my $PATH.
By default, TeX Live does not provide "biber" executable, only its
sources (the same is also true, e.g., for Asymptote).
> Therefore I used to have "texlive-bibeer" in addition to "texlive" in
> my system configuration, which resulted in having "biber" on my $PATH
> in the past. Recently, my system reconfiguration fails with
> "texlive" + "texlive-biber". guix system recofigure succeeds with
> "texlive" + "texlive-biber" + "texlive-bin". I have the impression
> that this shouldn't be the way to go.
>
> This is the failure (of building texlive-font-maps) during system
> reconfiguration with "texlive" + "texlive-biber" but without
> "texlive-bin":
>
> $ zcat
> /var/log/guix/drvs/ki/wcw72gaag3yx84hl9vhkk3mdh2ny15-texlive-font-maps.drv.gz
> Backtrace:
> 3 (primitive-load
> "/gnu/store/jrfjhxwfgsnazg7apkgcasqfrcq?")
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
> 619:8 2 (_ #f)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 140:2 1 (dynamic-wind #<procedure 7ffff77dcba0 at
> ice-9/eval.s?> ?)
> In unknown file:
> 0 (chdir "/tmp/texlive/share/texmf-dist")
>
> ERROR: In procedure chdir:
> In procedure chdir: No such file or directory
This should now be fixed. I'll let you close the bug if you can confirm
this.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou