linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: kerneldoc-preamble: Test xeCJK.sty before loading

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Message-ID: <62951a8b-bc3c-3f6c-48c2-08f5621142e7@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:24:16 +0900
From:   Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: kerneldoc-preamble: Test xeCJK.sty before
 loading

On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:53:57 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On distros whose texlive packaging is fine-grained, texlive-xecjk
> can be installed/removed independently of other texlive packages.
> Conditionally loading xeCJK depending only on the existence of the
> "Noto Sans CJK SC" font might end up in xelatex error of
> "xeCJK.sty not found!".
> 
> Improve the situation by testing existence of xeCJK.sty before
> loading it.
> 
> This is useful on RHEL 9 and its clone distros where texlive-xecjk
> doesn't work at the moment due to a missing dependency [1].
> "make pdfdocs" for non-CJK contents should work after removing
> texlive-xecjk.
> 
> Link: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2086254
FWIW, this ticket was closed recently. It took five months. Whew...

Now EPEL 9 carries texlive-ctex and its dependencies.
It is now possible to build pdfdocs with CJK contents within the
confinement of RHEL 9 and its clones' packages as long as you are
OK with enabling EPEL 9.

        Thanks, Akira

> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
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