linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 14/14] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix Archlinux PDF dependencies

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Message-ID: <574d902f7691861e18339217f42409850ee58791.1755763127.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:16:50 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 14/14] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix Archlinux PDF dependencies

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@...nel.org>
---
 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