Hello, the latest texlive update (cudos!) has left texlive-biber broken, at least in conjunction with the monolithic texlive:
$ guix shell texlive texlive-biber The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/b2dzc8ayda5dp53s5dq40v0f41290b4c-profile.drv building CA certificate bundle... listing Emacs sub-directories... building fonts directory... building directory of Info manuals... building TeX Live font maps... /builder for `/gnu/store/07yvc85w6piyggplfmmb211ljfp4kvqp-texlive-font-maps.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/07yvc85w6piyggplfmmb211ljfp4kvqp-texlive-font-maps.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/07/yvc85w6piyggplfmmb211ljfp4kvqp-texlive-font-maps.drv.gz'. cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/b2dzc8ayda5dp53s5dq40v0f41290b4c-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix shell: error: build of `/gnu/store/b2dzc8ayda5dp53s5dq40v0f41290b4c-profile.drv' failed Here is the end of /var/log/guix/drvs/07/yvc85w6piyggplfmmb211ljfp4kvqp-texlive-font-maps.drv.gz (not reproducing all the warnings at the beginning of the file): Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2158. Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. updmap: open() failed: No such file or directory at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2158. Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. updmap: open() failed: No such file or directory at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2158. Use of uninitialized value $fn in concatenation (.) or string at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. updmap: open() failed: No such file or directory at /gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap line 2159. updmap [ERROR]: The following map file(s) couldn't be found: updmap [ERROR]: dvips35.map (in builtin) updmap [ERROR]: pdftex35.map (in builtin) updmap [ERROR]: ps2pk35.map (in builtin) updmap [ERROR]: Did you run mktexlsr? You can disable non-existent map entries using the option --syncwithtrees. Backtrace: 2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/zdmcg1a44zijbcf5a1p4bd030lc?") In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 1 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff77f7c80> #) #) #)) In guix/build/utils.scm: 812:6 0 (invoke "/gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-t?" ?) guix/build/utils.scm:812:6: In procedure invoke: ERROR: 1. &invoke-error: program: "/gnu/store/rhaj62vg3bfzlvrm9bsmif4z1bzgq84a-texlive-scripts-66594/bin/updmap-sys" arguments: ("--cnffile=/gnu/store/m8pgn9zabl8h3pgaqs7hxj8y9z4mvxhs-texlive-font-maps/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg" "--dvipdfmxoutputdir=/gnu/store/m8pgn9zabl8h3pgaqs7hxj8y9z4mvxhs-texlive-font-maps/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap" "--dvipsoutputdir=/gnu/store/m8pgn9zabl8h3pgaqs7hxj8y9z4mvxhs-texlive-font-maps/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/updmap" "--pdftexoutputdir=/gnu/store/m8pgn9zabl8h3pgaqs7hxj8y9z4mvxhs-texlive-font-maps/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f Andreas