Re: performance issue with TeX Live

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Emmanuel,

Emmanuel Beffara <manu@beffara.org> writes:

> De Maxim Cournoyer le 16/10/2023 à 15:46:
>> My next question would be; how is this ls-R file produced in Guix?
>
> That I do not know, but I would assume mktexlsr is called at some point when
> building the profile.
>
>> Does it matches the expectations of upstream for producing such file?
>
> I don't know about those expectations, but after a quick look at the file in
> Guix and in Debian, they look really similar. The only noticable difference is
> that in Debian's file, the entries are sorted alphabetically in each folder
> and the subfolders are browsed in alphabetical order.

That may be enough of a difference to explain the lookup failure?  If
the lookup code expects things to appear in alphabetical order, it may
determine a lack of match early if that's not the case.

Perhaps worth trying to reproduce it as closely to see if it improves on
things.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim