Re: Strange FTBFS of ppl
On 05.07.08 Michael Tautschnig (mt@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> > > It seems to contain:
> > > /home/buildd/.dvipsrc: Permission denied
> > >
> > > While /home doesn't exist on the buildds. Please avoid writing
> > > anything there.
> >
> > Sure, I guess I need to forward this one to the TeX maintainers
> > (CC'ed), because this is just an artifact of building the PDF
> > documentation.
> >
>
> So, it's not causing an FTBFS (at least I guess this is not the
> case), but it's strange anyway: What is trying to read from
> /home/buildd? It's running pdftex at that very moment, I think.
>
~/.dvipsrc is a config file for dvips (like
/etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps). If it is found dvips tries to
evaluate it. In this case the file seems to be there (for any reason),
but is not readable. This should be harmless.
In one of your build logs I found the error:
sh: epstopdf: command not found
Error: Problems running epstopdf. Check your TeX installation!
This should be fixed. Else some expected picture in the docs could be
missing. The script in question is in texlive-extra-utils.
H.
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