Re: GUB dblatex breaks compile

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 03:07:53PM +0100, Julien Rioux wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > GUB is an (almost)-complete separate beast.  It uses the base OS
> > to build gcc/make/etc, but thereafter it compiles (almost)
> > everything using only self-compiled programs.  The intent is that
> > it should be more reliable; as long as GUB's "bootstrap" (i.e. the
> > toolchain) compiles, it shouldn't matter what distro you're using.
> > It certainly doesn't use apt.
> 
> But it uses a dblatex that looks for a python apt module?

It apparently picks it up from the host, and apparently dblatex is
broken in ubuntu 10.4.  (at least, broken to the extent of not
installing a required package?)

> > Maybe GUB needs to be tweaked so that it never looks for programs
> > on the host OS.  Maybe dblatex needs to be added to GUB (it's not
> > there right now).  Either of those options will take 1-10 hours.
> 
> This should definitely be looked into.

It would be great if you could do that.

> I can think of two really quick options: either remove the
> suffix-lyxml.lyxml regtest from the source tree where you are running
> this from, or remove dblatex from the host system running gub.

I'll remove dblatex.

- Graham