On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:41:40PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > > On 10/13/2014 05:05 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > > Are they built separately from main texlive build? If so, it should be > > possible with some hacking to let the build scripts use programs from > > the source/build dir that were just built. However, I am not sure nor > > aware what else do they require from a working texlive setup. > > > > Looking back at my notes from February (when I eventually gave up > in disgust) it seems clear to me that xindy needs latex and > pdflatex. For asy I found that it did in fact build, but the tests > fell apart. For asy, one possibility is that it needs files shipped > in texmf [ at that time, I had not found the texmf source ]. >
Possible, but wrong. The test still falls apart: ./wce Testing errors...Terminated I can see that wce is a simple script, which runs ./asy with a file, putting error messages in errors.temp, which it then diffs against the expected result. On this occasion, errors.temp contains only: Cannot execute kpsewhich That is to be expected, it has not yet been installed. If it had been installed, the test suite would then run a lot more tests. I conclude that the asy tests need texlive to be installed. It appears (for anybody who wants asy but not xindy - there is no accounting for taste ;) that the asy part can PROBABLY be built AND tested after installing "basic" texlive. But I am not particularly concerned about that partial build. Maybe it will appear in the options when I get to editing, maybe it won't - coping with all possible paths through this minefield is not a priority. 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
