andreas pushed a commit to branch tex-team
in repository guix.
commit 3cd4e0d4ce7af959c90b4fbb89fac408a80cea7f
Author: Nicolas Goaziou <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 10 11:29:23 2025 +0100
gnu: texlive build system: Un-dumbify a comment.
* guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm (build): Clarify a poorly explained
design choice.
Change-Id: Ida4e4ccb3934f8b5cc7a6e36e33cec7a5e5581e8
---
guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
b/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
index 4a1afc709b..25b64991f7 100644
--- a/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
+++ b/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
@@ -214,8 +214,10 @@ runfile to replace. If a file has no matching runfile, it
is ignored."
f))))
build-targets))
((directory-exists? "source")
- ;; Prioritize ".ins" files over ".dtx" files. There's no
- ;; scientific reasoning here; it just seems to work better.
+ ;; Prioritize ".ins" files over ".dtx" files. The former only
+ ;; generate runfiles whereas the latter usually also rebuild
+ ;; documentation, which is not regenerated during the build process
+ ;; as it would introduce some bootstrapping issues.
(match (find-files "source" "\\.ins$")
(() (find-files "source" "\\.dtx$"))
(files files)))
