sh: xindy: not found

[jy95]

Hello,

Thanks for your good Github Actions : I have a problem when using xindy with glossaries (I need that to sort my glossary entries with accents) with your action ( I have no problem with that in local with MiKTeX)

For my .latexmkrc, I use the glossary_latexmkrc from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/example_rcfiles.

\usepackage[
  toc,
  nonumberlist,
  nogroupskip,
  nopostdot,
  xindy
]{glossaries}
\usepackage{glossary-longbooktabs}
\makeglossaries

I checked and in Tex Live, xindy is installed but it seems makeglossaries use perl (which one cannot find it)

Any ideas ?

[xu-cheng]

This seems to be an issue of TeXLive that it does not offer xindy binaries for Linux musl environment. The package xindy.x86_64-linuxmusl is missing.

Could you try the following workaround?

- uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@v2
  with:
    pre_compile: | 
      ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/xindy
      ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/texindy
    root_file: main.tex

[jy95]

Tested just now :

[xu-cheng]

How about:

- uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@v2
  with:
    pre_compile: | 
      ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/xindy
      ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/texindy
      wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/xindy/files/xindy-source-components/2.4/xindy-kernel-3.0.tar.gz
      tar xf xindy-kernel-3.0.tar.gz
      cd xindy-kernel-3.0/src
      apk add make
      apk add clisp --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
      make
      cp -f xindy.mem /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/
      cd ../../
    root_file: main.tex

[xu-cheng]

The root issue is that xindy.x86_64-linuxmusl is missing. So you may want to submit to an issue to TeXLive.

[jy95]

@xu-cheng It seems we forgot to cd to the working directory so cannot test yet.
(maybe create a temporary release tag for that)

Feel free to submit an issue to TeXLive : It is the middle of the night in my timezone (and the Morpheus' arms are close) ^^
Honestly, I found strange this xindy.x86_64-linuxmusl is missing (even no alpine package whereas there is one in ubuntu ...)

[xu-cheng]

You can just cd it back in the end of precompile script.

I don’t use xindy by myself. So I will close this issue for now.

[jy95]

I think it may be useful to at least mention this weird behaviour some where (as glossaries package is often mentionned with xindy )
Do you mind sending a report to TeXLive (or suggest them to create an package on Alpine (tutorial) ) ?

Thanks for the help anyway.

[xu-cheng]

I now added a mention to this in the README.

I will not report an issue to TeXLive or Alpine, but you are free to do so.

[jy95]

@xu-cheng I send them an issue : let's see how it goes.
I would like to suggest you a cleaner solution :

workflow.yml:

    steps:
      - name: Set up Git repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      # For weird reasons, xindy binaries are not available in Tex Live (xindy.x86_64-linuxmusl) 
      # Github Actions set-output/set-env truncates Multiline Strings so ...
      # https://github.com/xu-cheng/latex-action/issues/32#issuecomment-626086551
      # https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/set-output-Truncates-Multiline-Strings/td-p/37870
      - name: Workaround script for xindy
        run: |
          content="$(tail -n +3 .github/workflows/texlive_workaround.sh)"
          content="${content//'%'/'%25'}"
          content="${content//$'\n'/'%0A'}"
          content="${content//$'\r'/'%0D'}"
          echo "::set-env name=TEXLIVE_WORKAROUND::$content"
      - name: Compile LaTeX document
        uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@v2
        with:
          pre_compile: | 
            ${{ env.TEXLIVE_WORKAROUND }}
          root_file: main.tex

texlive_workaround.sh :

#!/bin/sh
set -e

ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/xindy
ln -sf /opt/texlive/texdir/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/texindy
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/xindy/files/xindy-source-components/2.4/xindy-kernel-3.0.tar.gz
tar xf xindy-kernel-3.0.tar.gz
cd xindy-kernel-3.0/src
apk add make
apk add clisp --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
make
cp -f xindy.mem /opt/texlive/texdir/bin/x86_64-linuxmusl/
cd ../..

[goerz]

The workaround results in the following error for me:

...
Executing busybox-1.31.1-r19.trigger
OK: 406 MiB in 160 packages
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
  clisp (missing):
    required by: world[clisp]

[jy95]

@goerz Here was the answer I received from TeXLive team. Maybe it will help you ...

[goerz]

Thanks! I'm not really sure what to do with that, though. I worked around the problem by avoiding latexmk, and calling lualatex directly (twice). I'm actually not even sure why latexmk was trying to invoke xindy. My document doesn't have an index.

Wouldn't it be easier to switch the Docker image from Alpine Linux to some other Linux distribution that's fully supported by texlive (using the standard GNU stdlib)?

[xu-cheng]

@goerz Please try the updated workaround. The issue is caused due to clisp changing its repo in apk.

I worked around the problem by avoiding latexmk, and calling lualatex directly (twice). I'm actually not even sure why latexmk was trying to invoke xindy. My document doesn't have an index.

It should be able to disable xindy in latexmk by creating a .latexmkrc file. Please refer latexmk's doc on how to do it.

Wouldn't it be easier to switch the Docker image from Alpine Linux to some other Linux distribution that's fully supported by texlive (using the standard GNU stdlib)?

The reason Alpine is used is because its smaller size. Unfortunately, we cannot easily change the image without causing breakage to existing workflows.