texlive: chktex cannot find its configuration file

[abbradar]

I've hit the same bug as described in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225213. The root of the problem seems to be missing configuration file which should be placed somewhere and made accessible by chktex. It is used by, for example, tex-mode in Emacs.

cc @vcunat

[jagajaga]

cc @vcunat

[vcunat]

I'm just getting this warning:

chktex: WARNING -- Could not find global resource file.

Otherwise the output seems normal to me, but I've never really used the utility.

[vcunat]

Oh, I see, -v is still a problem, as it used to be in Debian.

[vcunat]

Actually, that config file is provided by chktex package, so if I include it in texlive.combine, it works fine even with -v.

Still, it's a bit confusing that the core provides chktex binary but doesn't fully support it.

[vcunat]

I currently can't see a simple way how to improve that.

[romildo]

I am not able to use chktex on emacs because it does not accept the option --verbosity=0. In the command line I get:

$ chktex --verbosity=0
chktex: WARNING -- Could not find global resource file.
chktex: ERROR -- Illegal verbosity level.

Is it related to this issue, or should I report a new issue?

[Profpatsch]

triage: this might have been fixed in the meantime, is that so?

[asymmetric]

@Profpatsch it's still necessary to explicitly add the chktex package, otherwise the problem persists.

[veprbl]

Could anyone, please, provide steps to reproduce?

[veprbl]

The "chktex -v" works for me, I have texlive.combined.scheme-full installed with nix-env.

[andersk]

chktex -v works in texlive.combined.scheme-medium but not texlive.combined.scheme-small.

$ nix-shell --pure -p texlive.combined.scheme-small --run 'chktex -v /dev/null'
chktex: WARNING -- Could not find global resource file.
chktex: ERROR -- Illegal verbosity level.
$ nix-shell --pure -p texlive.combined.scheme-medium --run 'chktex -v /dev/null'
ChkTeX v1.7.6 - Copyright 1995-96 Jens T. Berger Thielemann.
Compiled with POSIX extended regex support.
No errors printed; No warnings printed; No user suppressed warnings; No line suppressed warnings.
$ nix-info
system: "x86_64-linux", multi-user?: yes, version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.7, channels(root): "nixos-21.03pre243690.441a7da8080", channels(anders): "", nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[Narice]

This issue still persists as of today under the tetex scheme. the addition of the chktex package is mandatory to not get this error.
I was getting this error in emacs:
chktex: WARNING -- Could not find global resource file.
chktex: ERROR -- Illegal verbosity level.

I didn't thought that this was a NixOS related issue so this thread was quite hard to stumble upon.

[veprbl]

@Narice I can't reproduce:

# nix-shell -p texlive.combined.scheme-tetex --run ": | chktex -v" -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/9ce1caa63c9c806e705cd0d282a4aa920dce76fd.tar.gz
ChkTeX v1.7.6 - Copyright 1995-96 Jens T. Berger Thielemann.
Compiled with POSIX extended regex support.
No errors printed; No warnings printed; No user suppressed warnings; No line suppressed warnings.

[veprbl]

I guess I forgot --pure. If I include that then it just gives "chktex: command not found". So how do I trigger the issue?