Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex

[Quiliro Ordonez]

El 2019-02-07 22:25, Quiliro Ordonez escribió:
> El 2019-02-06 21:39, Ricardo Wurmus escribió:
>> Hi Quiliro,
>>
>>> Emacs is capable of exporting to PDF by the use of pdflatex. This
>>> program is available in Trisquel and PureOS (as a Debian inheritance) by
>>> way of the 'texlive-latex-base' package. With Guix, even after
>>> installing 'texlive-base' package (which depends on
>>> 'texlive-latex-base'), Emacs would give the error of missing 'pdflatex'
>>> when exporting to PDF. The only solution to exporting to PDF on Emacs on
>>> a foreign distro is to install 'texlive-latex-base' via 'sudo apt
>>> install'. On GSD (Guix System Distribution) it is impossible to export
>>> to PDF on Emacs.
>>
>> “pdflatex” is provided by “texlive-bin”.
> 
> This is the new output after installing texlive-bin and then exporting
> to PDF on Emacs:
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017)
> (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>       LANGUAGE = (unset),
>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>       LANG = "es_EC.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> Can't locate mktexlsr.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /gnu/store/tlpkg
> /gnu/store/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
> /gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/i686-linux-thread-multi
> /gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1
> /gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/5.26.1/i686-linux-thread-multi
> /gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/5.26.1)
> at /home/quiliro/.guix-profile/bin/mktexfmt line 23.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /home/quiliro/.guix-profile/bin/mktexfmt line 25.
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!

address@hidden ~$ locate pdflatex.fmt
/gnu/store/aryqy6a5vzzm7knd7imh6h50p9bbc6xg-profile/share/texmf-dist/web2c/pdflatex.fmt
/gnu/store/wx8v9i345a2iw5rx4p0rs11yy2k9icdm-profile/share/texmf-dist/web2c/pdflatex.fmt
/gnu/store/xqh1gl87pp8mlaxyki7dx95b716dba5g-texlive-latex-base-44591/share/texmf-dist/web2c/pdflatex.fmt