From 447b9473cba5e65a9c46c2428b588a2110f01c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hartmut Goebel Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:20:00 +0100 Subject: gnu: dblatex: Update comment. * gnu/packages/docbook.scm (dblatex)[arguments]: Detail comment about why the use of setuptools needs to be disabled. --- gnu/packages/docbook.scm | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu/packages/docbook.scm') diff --git a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm index f54e031873..46041c24d3 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm @@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ (define-public dblatex ("libxslt" ,libxslt))) ;for xsltproc (arguments `(#:python ,python-2 ;'print' syntax - ;; XXX: Disable usage of setuptools, even though it is supported. - ;; This causes an invalid "package_base" in out/bin/.dblatex-real - ;; due to a missing leading '/'. See this thread for details: + ;; Using setuptools causes an invalid "package_base" path in + ;; out/bin/.dblatex-real due to a missing leading '/'. This is caused + ;; by dblatex's setup.py stripping the root path when creating the + ;; script. (dblatex's setup.py still uses distutils and thus has to + ;; create the script by itself. The feature for creating scripts is one + ;; of setuptools' features.) + ;; See this thread for details: ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00030.html #:use-setuptools? #f #:tests? #f ;no 'test' command -- cgit v1.2.3