On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:30:29PM -0600, Arnie Stender wrote: > On 03/04/2016 06:31 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > >Wow, somebody apart from me building asymptote! Thanks for that. > >(I only put it in the book because somebody noticed our old 'build > >texinfo from source on top of the binary' process did not actually > >rebuild asymptote, biber, or xindy.) > > > >It looks as if root does not have > >/opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/ on his PATH. > >As root (and indeed as a user, but I doubt you could have got this > >far without it being on the user's PATH), 'which pdflatex'. > > > >ĸen > Ken, > If I counted right there are over 20 of these malformed links. Something > else occurred to me. There are many more of the form: > > yplan -> ../../texmf-dist/scripts/yplan/yplan > > This looks like I have to retain the source directory forever. Do you agree? > I think it would be worth the pain of moving all the scripts to the bin > directory instead of leaving the links. > > Arnie
Arnie, after my experiences in the last few hours with fedora, I have just instituted a new rule here : "Never agree to nuffink". But serously - /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/yplan linking to ../../texmf-dist/scripts/yplan/yplan seems correct : ../ is in bin/ ../../ is in 2015 and texmf-dist/scripts/yplan should be below 2015/ (it comes from the texmf tarball). I should perhaps also note that texlive is only really in BLFS as a replacement for the obsolete tetex as a means for some packages to create optional docs - and most of those are now broken (they tend to rely on outdated versions of TeX packages). But basic TeX, latex (e.g. pdflatex), context, luatex, xelatex should still work - and so should asymptote, biber, and xindy if you follow the book's instructions. The texmf stuff gets installed into /opt/texlive/2015/texmf - I do not describe that as the source - the source is wherever you built texlive : /sources/texlive-whichever, or ~/texlive-whichever or wherever. And if you think that a symlink such as yplan is broken, try file $(type -pa yplan) [ I would normally use 'which yplan' but I cannot guarantee that you installed a which variant! ] Also, the scripts are not necessarily independent of the related directories in texmf - they might have paths to other files hardcoded in them. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
