[Nix-dev] texlive's epspdf is broken

[Peter Simons]

Hi Yury,

 >> TeXlive installs the executable epspdf, but it cannot actually be run:
 >> Now, 'texLive' depends on 'ruby'. Does anyone know what exactly that
 >> interpreter is used for? Would it be okay to downgrade that to 'ruby18'?
 >
 > No, but you can pass ruby18 to texlive.

Well, of course, I wondered about downgrading the version of ruby that is
passed to *texLive*. I had no intention of changing the global 'ruby'
attribute to achieve that. Anyway, I don't know much about Ruby, and I don't
much about Tex either. Apparently, Ruby 18 and 19 are quite incompatible? So
I asked about the downgrade because I'm worried that the downgrade is going
to break stuff in TeX that I don't know about.

I guess the best way to find out whether that's the case or not is to commit
the change ...


 >> And does anyone know by any chance how to fix that shebang issue?
 >
 > Use patchShebangs from setup.sh

I don't know how to run patchShebangs in pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/default.nix.
If anyone else know how to do that, then please give fixing this problem a
try.

Take care,
Peter