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[Bill Deegan]

+1 on fixing tests so they don't fail because packages/tools aren't
installed.

For the Tex stuff I don't know which tools are needed, can someone who
knows take a look?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:09 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Russel.
>>
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