Re: [PATCH 00/11] Fix PDF doc builds on major distros

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:32:00 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:16:29 +0900
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> escreveu:

[...]

>> That's all I am asking.
>>
>> I have no particular interest in the way you are testing all those
>> variety of distros, and have no idea about it.
>>
>> Please provide steps to reproduce.
>> I'd like to see a Dockerfile based "FROM ubuntu:latest" as the testing
>> environment.
> 
> Heh, that's why you can't reproduce... you're using a Docker container
> and a different Ubuntu version than I.
> 
> What I did here was to use a lxc container with 25.04, and used
> a script to pick the exact recommendations given by sphinx-pre-install.
> 
> The container was created with:
>

[...]

> once you get what's needed for make htmldocs work, installing
> only the dependencies recommended by sphinx-pre-install, you can
> start trying to reproduce the build issues for pdf.

I've just built a container "FROM ubuntu:plucky", which has inkscape
instead of imagemagick + rsvg-convert.
I don't see any font issue at 4/11 of this series under the container
(I'm using podman).

Furthermore, after I applied both of your series and the change for
parallel runs of xelatex/latexmk and reverting the 5/11, I don't see
any issue.

Which strongly suggests 5/11 is not fixing any realistic issues.

FWIW, Dockerfile I'm using for building the container is derived from the
one I've been taking care of since 2021 as a LaTeX advisor to perfbook.

If you are interested, here is its repo of Paul:

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/perfbook.git

You might be interested in seeing docker/Dockerfile.

I think there is something you are missing in the boot strapping phases
of building your container.

Just my wild guess.

Thanks,
Akira