On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:18:23AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote:
[ just replying to your comments, so I'll cut the rest ] > > > > 3. texlive... -texmf > > > > The required scripts and docs. With a big Note and using > >tar ... -C from the current directory. > > Seems reasonable, but needs a little more explanation. > I'm probably too close to it. I guess that adding a command explanation for tar -C would not be amiss (Armin reminded me of it), but what else ? > > 4. texlive ... -source pass 1 > > > > New page, for building from source - copied from -source. > > > ><rude words> : I _thought I had set TEXARCH in texlive for 7.6, but > >apparently I only did it to the binary installer. This version has > >x86_64 hardcoded and I did not notice (and then fixed that up in > >texlive itself). > > > > A large slice of dependencies and command explanations ought to be > >in a copy member for htis approach (shared by texlive), I have not > >wasted time trying to do that. > > > > Remeasured for 7.6. > > > > 5. Setting the PATH for TeX Live > > > > Moved from install-tl-unx to its own page, new final paragraph > >telling people where to go after this. > > I thought /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info were already in extrapaths.sh. > I'll add them, but they don't need to go in this section. I don't think I have changed the content of this since I started touching TeX. Certainly, all I am doing here is moving it to a separate page to make it easier to link to from the alternative routes. I don't use extrapaths.sh, my bash profile and bashrc go back years and are quite different from the book, so I would not notice if things were being added twice. > > I think you might also say that if xindy and testing asy are not needed, > then the user does not have to proceed past this section. (Is that right?) > Almost - if xindy and asy are not needed. I have assumed people will want to build the full package, so although asy has to be separately configured and built, it is only covered in the next section - > > 6. texlive ... -source > > I can add a note to the path page for people who do not require asy and xindy. [ People who merely do not require xindy can hopefully work out for themselves how to build it in pass 1 : because of my inexperience in using TeX I have been running all the tests to gain a little confidence - there are not many other packages where I do that ] > > Lots of work. I think these are really complex. It's too bad it has to be > that way. > I'm sure that for some of this there are other possible ways to build, but what I'm now doing does not require binaries and appears to work. 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
