On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:53:08PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > >BTW - did I ever mention how much I hate this stuff ? > > The only thing I can say is that we appreciate it.
Thanks. I guess that what I actually hate, apart from the presumption that binaries are the way to go, is the general fragility - much of it is still under development, which is good, but the changes in one part can break something else and documentation on the web is often out of date. > > BTW, did you ever install a commercial distro, say debian or fedora and test > their versions of xindy and asymptote. > > -- Bruce The asymptote problem is a build problem during the install. It only applies on recent builds (so, something after LFS/BLFS-7.6 has broken it). For xindy : yes, I used distros in qemu - I did not get around to testing fedora (I _know_ that their biblatex stuff has been broken for a few years because they did not ship biber (too many perl deps) - found bug(s) for that, and somebody had user-supplied versions at fedora for F20. F21 is now out, but I don't think I've got time at the moment. For debian-derived, I used xubuntu-14.04 32-bit with texlive-full (I'm 99% sure that is now texlive-2014). There, xindy works. FWIW, asy and biber were not present - I'm sure they are available in separate packages, but I have not got back to looking for them. I also used the base xubuntu-14.04 to install the 2014 binaries from texlive rather than from the distro, using their preferred /usr/local/texlive (and also with added symlinks from /usr : I was testing how to find texlive OTF/TTF fonts not known to fontconfig, but I've now got a better way) and again xindy worked. I also tried slackbuilds on slackware64. There, xindy failed. 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
