Hi, Last year, TeX Live dropped NetBSD/i386 distribution in its main system. As a long time (20+ years) user of both LaTeX and NetBSD, the blow was harsh on me but I could survive for some time with the TeX Live 2012 pretest binaries (which existed for NetBSD/i386) and TeX Live 2012 release packages. Now that TeX Live 2013 is in its pretest phase, I need another solution.
David Brownlee <a...@netbsd.org> wrote some time ago: > > So one thought might be a pkgsrc package which built the "Custom > binaries" suitable for using TeXLive > http://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html - does anyone have any idea of > what that would entail? I had a look at the TeX Live sources and this will not be easy because they provide various libraries (from libpng to icu) that already are in pkgsrc. As we also have various TeX-related programs in pkgsrc, it might be possible to gather them and rebuild a custom binaries pack (a collection of symbolic links would be appropriate) that could be suitable for the TeX Live installer. Anyway, I took upon me to grab the current TeX Live sources and compile them on a NetBSD/i386 6.0.1 system. Having found the right options (use GNU make all the way, pass the right options to the linker for shared libraries), compilation is pretty straightforward and it gave me what's here: http://www.babafou.eu.org/texlive-netbsd/ I'll also make binaries for NetBSD/amd64 6.0.1 in the next few days.
