There are some missing packages causing PDF build to fail on
Archlinux and add latexmk (from texlive-binextra package).
Yet, at least today, PDF builds are failing on a very late
stage, when trying to run xdvipdfmx:
$ xdvipdfmx -E -o "peci.pdf" "peci.xdv"
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Unrecognized paper format: # Simply write the paper name. See man 1 paper and "paper --no-size --all" for possible values
Despite its message, even using a very simple document like:
\def\sphinxdocclass{report}
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,english]{sphinxmanual}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}
or even:
\def\sphinxdocclass{report}
\documentclass{sphinxmanual}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}
Is causing xdvipdfmx to complain about geometry. As Archlinux is
a rolling release distro, maybe I got it on a bad day. So, let's
fix it in the hope that soon enough someone would fix the issues
there.
Such broken scenario happens with those packages installed:
texlive-basic 2025.2-1
texlive-bin 2025.2-1
texlive-binextra 2025.2-1
texlive-fontsrecommended 2025.2-1
texlive-langchinese 2025.2-1
texlive-langcjk 2025.2-1
texlive-latex 2025.2-1
texlive-latexextra 2025.2-1
texlive-latexrecommended 2025.2-1
texlive-pictures 2025.2-1
texlive-xetex 2025.2-1
python-docutils 1:0.21.2-3
python-sphinx 8.2.3-1
python-sphinx-alabaster-theme 1.0.0-4
python-sphinxcontrib-applehelp 2.0.0-3
python-sphinxcontrib-devhelp 2.0.0-4
python-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 2.1.0-3
python-sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1-19
python-sphinxcontrib-qthelp 2.0.0-3
python-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 2.0.0-3
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
index c46d7b76f93c..954ed3dc0645 100755
--- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
+++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
@@ -1048,7 +1048,12 @@ class SphinxDependencyChecker(MissingCheckers):
}
archlinux_tex_pkgs = [
+ "texlive-basic",
+ "texlive-binextra",
"texlive-core",
+ "texlive-fontsrecommended",
+ "texlive-langchinese",
+ "texlive-langcjk",
"texlive-latexextra",
"ttf-dejavu",
]
--
2.50.1
