Arch Linux

Please attach the failing document to the report.

Well, it's not that easy. I am translating the german documentation for the fli4l project (www.fli4l.de) in a private svn branch. I'll try to attach an example.

Please extract the failing command from your Makefile and provide only the inputs of that command.

This is beyond my scope, sorry. I tried to downgrade to the texlive version in extra, but that leaves a complete mess. Even completely removing texlive-most did not work. It leaves even more of a mess. I had to remove the packages files manually. Did you ever try downgrading or removing the package group via 'pacman -S extra/texlive-most' or 'pacman -R texlive-most' ? I can't copy the errors here because they are simply too much. I suggest trying this yourself. From what I've seen rushing through it seems to go down to path errors like 'warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories...' Which would also explain my initial issues. The files are simply not found while they are there. Did the search path change from v2012 to v2013?

Please read https://www.archlinux.org/news/texlive-2013-update-may-require-user-intervention/
for upgrading issues.

It is possible that a packaging bug modified the search paths. But please provide a command that fails with input files. The archive you attached contains garbage.

Well, I wouldn't call my work garbage ;)
I just downloaded it again and tried it myself. Just unpack the archive and dive into the directory latex2html/chrony/, open a console and execute 'make': '! LaTeX Error: File `verbatimfiles.sty' not found.' By the way, if you provide the path to `verbatimfiles.sty' it will work.

make shows you the commands it runs, so it should be easy for you to extract the failing command. The tarball contains log files and many unrelated data. Please provide only the minimal material to reproduce the error. I don't run complex untrusted Makefiles.

Remy, I can't debug this any further. Maybe we will have to wait until this bug hits [extra] and somebody else can explain it better or at least can give me some help in debugging this. I did try to debug make output (see attached textfile) and even path variables but I can't figure this out. I try to provide a 'cleaner' archive once again, but it all comes down to make not finding the latex2html files. Run 'make' in the chrony subdir and see the output. If you don't trust me, use a virtual machine. I can't believe you have none at your hands for testing purposes as an arch developer.

It's not about availability of test machines or whatever. It's simply that I don't have the time to do that.
Wrapping calls to latex in shell scripts called by Makefiles is not halping the debugging.

Please explain what command you are running to reproduce the issue.

These Makefiles are not running latex.