[Debichem-devel] Bug#896141: msxpertsuite: binary-all FTBFS

[Filippo Rusconi]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 12:01:43PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:21:36AM +0200, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
>>...
>> Can you provide more insight into this copy error? As I tell you, that error
>> does not happen on my unstable chroot, running dpkg-buildpackage -A exactly the
>> same. This is what I got 2 minutes ago (see the parallel with your output
>> excerpt):
>>...
>
>Attached is the complete output of "dpkg-buildpackage -A -J1"
>(-J1 to rule out parallel build issues) in freshly unpacked
>msxpertsuite sources.

Thank you, Adrian, for the full log, that indeed proved useful:

I discovered the failure: the user manuals do not get properly output by
pdfLaTeX for an unknown reason:

(line 367 of the log)

(./preface.tex
Chapter 1.
[1] [2]

./preface.tex:122: Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.122 ...\'Ecole Polytechnique} (Institut Européen
                                                   de
./preface.tex:122:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on massxpert-doc.log.

While I can understand that the error arises, I cannot understand why it does
not arise on my build setup. Indeed, the encoding of the document should not
allow diacritical characters like 'é' in Européen. This one escaped my
attention, since I normally use \'e in lieu of 'é'.

I cannot know why the error shows up in the remote build system and not in my
own chroot, but I'll modify the tex files to handle unicode, even if the manuals
are all-English.

Thanks again for your build work.

Cheers
Filippo

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