Dear Jerry, Although I have no idea what xindy is, I enjoyed reading your analysis. Thx for your insightful post. Vít Dne 16. 05. 19 v 3:45 Jerry James napsal(a): > I finally found some time to look at the xindy failure to build. > First, let me say that I've got a workaround for the problem, which > resulted in the beautiful green colors in this xindy-enabled scratch > build of texlive-base: > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=34877270 > > When the build process reached the xindy part of the build, it would > successfully build xindy itself, then go to work on some > documentation. This involved invoking latex on several input files. > This marked the first (and possibly only) point in the build where > latex was invoked, so latex.fmt had not yet been generated. Since we > build with %{?_smp_mflags}, several independent threads invoked latex > at approximately the same time. Every one of those invocations > detected that latex.fmt was missing and tried to generate it. > > If you got lucky, each one of those threads would generate latex.fmt, > then quickly consume it as it ran on its appointed input file. If you > didn't get lucky, one or more threads would start reading latex.fmt > after some other thread started writing it, but before it finished > writing it all the way. That's why xindy would sometimes build and > sometimes fail to build: the build process had a race condition. > > It is unfortunate that texlive is smart enough to detect missing > format files and generate them, but not smart enough to stop that from > happening multiple times concurrently. Anyway, poor xindy has been > maligned: none of this was xindy's fault, nor clisp's. We, the Fedora > packagers, threw concurrency at a job that lacked concurrency control. > And the whole xindy_arches thing is useless: this is not an > arch-specific problem, so removing random arches from the build > accomplishes nothing. > > The workaround is to invoke latex on a dummy input file early in > %build. This causes latex.fmt to be generated, and then everything is > hunky-dory when xindy is built later. > > My recommendation is to remove the xindy_arches conditional from the > texlive-base and texlive spec files. Make it unconditionallly on > again. Then insert something like this at the top of %build: > > # Make texlive generate latex.fmt, so that multiple threads do not race to > # make it during the xindy build. > cat > dummy.tex << EOF > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > This is a document. > \end{document} > EOF > latex dummy.tex > rm -f dummy.* > > That is the substance of this pull request: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/texlive-base/pull-request/6 > > Also, I should be able to push a clisp build with s390x support to F30 > stable tomorrow. I, personally, would really appreciate having xindy > reappear in F30, due to Sphinx assuming it is available. > > Regards, _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
