On 2014-01-12 20.06, akhiezer wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:02:13 +0000
>> From: [email protected] (akhiezer)
>> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] No latex command? texlive-20130530
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>> Reading the blfs-svn-texlive page 
>> ('http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/texlive.html') again, 
>> I'm 
>> again wondering if the "At this point the installation is complete. If 
>> building from source is desired, extract the source package as usual and 
>> continue." is perhaps slightly misleading (no offence to anyone if that 
>> impression is wrong): for, e.g., for cmmi install I'd kindof expect you 
>> might 
>> still need to do the 'pathappend' stuff shown above that point in the page.
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> (Am also now wondering if am not grokking exactly what sequence of commands 
> that page is wanting the user to do, for a cmmi install.)
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>  - you might want to compare'n'contrast with how texlive is built in the 
> following ( slackware.org.uk , slackbuilds.org , & rlworkman are all 
> well-regarded sources):


> ====
> * http://slackware.org.uk/people/rworkman/sources/14.1/texlive/
>   The central file is './texlive.SlackBuild'  .
>   (NB there's 3 main tarballs; and look at e.g. what './texlive.SlackBuild' 
>    says re the '..-extra..' & '..texmf..' tarballs.
>    NB also the patches re paths.)
>   Same dirtree, hosted on alt server:
>   http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/office/texlive/
> ==
> * The 'texi2html', 'libsigsegv', & 'texscythe' (the first two are simple 
>   installs [should you need them], and you almost certainly don't need to 
>   install 'texscythe') referred to, are avail on same servers, via:
> 
>   - http://slackware.org.uk/people/rworkman/sources/14.1/texi2html/
>     ( == http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/development/texi2html/ )
> 
>   - http://slackware.org.uk/people/rworkman/sources/14.1/libsigsegv/
>     ( == http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/libraries/libsigsegv/ )
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>   - http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/misc/texscythe/
> 
> ==
> * ( http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=tex&sv=14.1 )
> ====
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> (NB am not 'trying' to push this - & likewise in other threads - away from 
> b/lfs to slack: am just trying to hopefully help clarify; and the 
> external-to-blfs *nix resources that I know best, are slackware (& openbsd).)
That is a good idea. I will check. Meanwhile, I am on tlbuild list as
well. I am using a binary installed Texlive on Debian 7, for the time
being. It works fine. I might also run the Texlive installer from BLFS book.

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> hth,
> akhiezer
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