On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:01:38 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I tried to install it about a year ago and gave up. It left me with the impression that it was steaming pile of unmaintained broken rubbish that nobody cared for enough to fix. I am very much in favour of dropping broken rubbish from the book. I'm sorry you lost a days work to bring us this information. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
