I'm getting ready to add the *real* from-source texlive build to the book, using the texmf tarball to provide 3.6GB of scripts and docs. But I've got a couple of questions:
1. Where do we encourage people to keep their source tarballs ? I'm guessing /sources but I might be wrong. The reason for that question is that the install consists of mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/2014 cd /opt/texlive/2014 tar -xf /path/to/texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz --strip-components=1 2. When building texlive without a pre-existing tex installation, the build has to be done twice: first time, a few parts (asy, xindy) require various tex programs and cannot be built, also the install is slightly different; second time (with the tex progs on $PATH) it can all be built as we currently do. Of course die-hard TeX purists might shun asy and xindy. For them, the smaller install may suffice. I was originally going to put the multiple variants all in one page [ not uncommon for BLFS, but hard to follow ], but I think it might be clearer if I separated the first partial build to its own page, somewhat like how LFS has two passes of binutils and gcc for /tools. By putting it on a separate page, I could then move the PATH setup so that both the binary and the pass-1 versions lead to that. But, I sort of expect that changing it like this might upset somebody. If so, please speak up now ;-) ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
