[Scons-dev] Ubuntu buildbot available

[William Blevins]

Alright, now I have 71 failing, so at least I am on the same page.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 21:07 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> >
> […]
> > looks like the failing TeX testcases aren't protected properly
> > against not having "latex" installed and in the $PATH. Not sure if
> > you really want to go that route and install a full TeXLive version
> > (or similar).
>
> Rather than installing TexLive shouldn't we fix the SCons tests?
>
> I have and need the full TeXLive distribution so I can never check
> these sorts of things locally.
>
> Perhaps we should have a programme whenever something like this happens
> of fixing the tests before getting people to install stuff.
>
> SCons tests should only ever have skipped tests (even if there are 1000
> of them), never failing ones, no matter what the installation set of
> the test host.
>
> > For DocBook you would need to install the XSLT stylesheets and put a
> > link to them from
> >
> >    /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl
> >
> > and also install the Python XML bindings libxml2/libxslt or lxml,
> > respectively.
>
> And on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/… all the rest of the stuff that gets pulled
> in. :-)
>
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> Russel.
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