> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:39:59 +0000 > From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn > . . > 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. >
Apols if is stated clearly earlier in thread, but: for non-build issues, if possible could you post - or refer to place(s) in thread - the cmdlines that you're seeing not work, along with the errors that you're seeing, and what is expected output (I did see the n-page pdf post t'other day); and if possible make any input files avail for download via yr lfs webspace - or again pointers to them? akh > ??en > -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
