luxInteg wrote:
> Greetings
>
> regarding texlive2011 installation:-
>
> (A)
> this page
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/pst/texlive.html
>
> says:-
> Note
> If you passed the option --enable-shared to the configure command, the two
> libraries, ibkpathsea.so, libptexenc.so and their symbolic links will also
> need to be copied to /usr/lib
>
>
> However it does not say how this is done , i.e the destination directory
> for libkpathsea.so and libptexenc.so
It says: "to /usr/lib". What is unclear about that?
>
> (B)
> The latter link also mentioned calling 'install-tl' with the "-custom-bin
> path" switch
> which says:-
> {
> If you have built your own binaries for your system (probably because your
> platform was not supported by TeX Live out of the box), this option allows you
> to give the path to a directory where the binaries for the current system are
> present. The installation will continue as usual, but at the end all files
> from path are copied over to bin/custom in your installation folder and this
> directory will be added to the path for the post-install actions
> {
>
> Does this mean that we could do a normal make install without the
> make DESTDIR=$PWD/livetex-tmp install mentioned on former link?
I don't recommend mixing upstream install procedures and BLFS install
procedures. They generally expect you to install pre-built binaries.
This was a very difficult package to develop for me, but it seems to
work as I don't recall anyone else commenting on it. What exactly is
your question?
-- Bruce
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