#16352: Hadrian: generation of PDF documents doesn't work -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: alpmestan | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 8.7 (Hadrian) | Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- 1) With [https://github.com/alpmestan/ghc.nix ghc.nix] While trying to produce `_build/docs/pdfs/Haddock.pdf`: {{{ kpathsea: Running mktexmf pcrr8t ! I can't find file `pcrr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input pcrr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input pcrr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: pcrr8t.log: No such file or directory }}} 2) With the CI docker images (e.g [https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/blob/master/.circleci/images/x86_64 -linux-deb8/Dockerfile this x86_64 debian8 one]) Agian, while trying to product the PDF version of the haddock manual: {{{ | Run Xelatex: Haddock.tex => /tmp/extra-dir-87721391039866 This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./Haddock.tex LaTeX2e <2014/05/01> Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 2 languages loaded. (./sphinxmanual.cls Document Class: sphinxmanual 2009/06/02 Document class (Sphinx manual) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls Document Class: report 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty Package inputenc Warning: inputenc package ignored with utf8 based engines. ) ! Undefined control sequence. <recently read> \DeclareUnicodeCharacter l.5 \DeclareUnicodeCharacter {00A0}{\nobreakspace} No pages of output. Transcript written on Haddock.log. }}} [https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/378643 This StackExchange post] that Matthew pointed me to gives a clue as to as why this happens. --- I am going to comment out the `need`s that make us produce these files in Hadrian when we ask for the docs, for now, leaving a comment pointing to this ticket. Then as we figure out solutions to these issues (especially 2), since that's GHC's CI system), we can put those PDFs back in and mark this ticket as solved. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16352 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler