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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/docbook.scm | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm index f54e031873..46041c24d3 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/docbook.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/docbook.scm @@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ by no means limited to these applications.) This package provides XML DTDs.") ("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 |