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Unverified Commit 447b9473 authored by Hartmut Goebel's avatar Hartmut Goebel
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gnu: dblatex: Update comment.

* gnu/packages/docbook.scm (dblatex)[arguments]: Detail comment about why
the use of setuptools needs to be disabled.
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......@@ -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
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