On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 10:47:36AM +1300, Christopher Gregory wrote: > > I have yet to install texlive without the binary installer. I was > waiting for you to find all the errors/bugs and get rid of them before I > did. :) > Yeah, despite what I said in another thread, there *is* a Spam folder in virgin's webmail, but I could not see it at first (on my real gmail acount I have filter to put different things to different labels, and 'spam' comes up after the known labels - on virgin it seemed to be deliberately hidden away, or maybe that is just hte old interface).
Anyway, to comment on that lighthearted phrase : x86_64 seems to work fine, for all the modern parts of texlive (context, lualatex, xelatex, biber, xindy), and also for pdflatex. With the binaries, 2014 context was broken on my newest machine (noted in the book) in x86_64 although not in i686. Playing with my tex test scripts in qemu (trying to make them *generally* useful, instead of BLFS-specific) I found that xindy was broken on at least one of hte slackbuilds (but I forget it that was i686 or x86_64) and context (Mk IV) was also broken in a lot of this year's distro updates - there were some duff support files out there for a while. Obviously, when I say "all the modern parts of texlive" there are in fact large areas which I do not test - but if I can create a PDF, and particularly if I can do that using UTF-8 and OTF/TTF fonts, then I'm happy. For the little it is worth, context appears to have been broken in the source from two earlier years (I got back to 2009, I think). Turns out there is a simple test to see if context works : 'context --version ; echo $?'. So no, using the binaries is not a panacea. 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
