I've been trying to get livetex properly built and installed today and
have had a lot of problems.
First, the build issues are relatively minor. I do not have X installed
and have to pass --without-x --disable-xdvipdfmx, but other than that,
it seems to build OK.
The problem is in the install phase. It wants to create the following
directories in /usr:
bin include lib share texmf texmf-dist
The include and lib directories are OK, but the bin directory has a lost
of entries pointing to ../texmf-dist/scripts/ and ../texmf/scripts/
Probably worst of all, it removes the /usr/bin/man executable and
replaces it with a symlink to ../texmf/doc/man.
I can probably write instructions to move all this stuff around to the
proper locations, but I wonder if it's worth it. Do we really need TeX
in BLFS? We do have teTeX, but that has not been updated since 2006.
Right now, I'm considering dropping all of Chapter 48:
48. Typesetting
* TeX Live-20110705
* teTeX-3.0
* JadeTeX-3.13
Does anyone use this? I note that it is not installed by default in
either ubuntu or RHEL. We do use in in about 28 places in the book for
optionally rebuilding documentation, but I don't know if those sections
are really valuable to users or not.
Thoughts?
-- Bruce
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