> You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the > TeXlive sources. I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT > and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run:
<snip> > I think I kept notes while building the binaries. If I manage to find > them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009 > distribution from source. If you could post back with that, it would be great. <snip> > Notes for builders > ================== > > If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set > the following in your shell environment: > > export TL_MAKE='gmake' > export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD"' > export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite' > > You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions > at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/>. I used rsync to grab a snapshot of > the sources, as described in <http://www.tug.org/texlive/svn/>. Then I > followed the instructions at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html> to > build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X. Thanks for the information -- Jamie Website: http://www.koderize.com PGP Key: wget http://www.koderize.com/jpg-gnupg.asc
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