Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-11 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
On 10-12-2014 20:41, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 08:40:38PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:48PM +, akhiezer wrote: Apols if is stated clearly earlier in thread, but: for non-build issues, if possible could you post - or refer to place(s) in thread -

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-11 Thread akhiezer
From blfs-dev-boun...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Wed Dec 10 20:28:01 2014 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:40:38 + From: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:41:46AM +, akhiezer wrote: 1. Context, as noted, is sometimes broken and craps out if you run 'context --version'. It gives fairly explicit tex error messages - the problem was with the supporting files from the garden or whatever the context site is called.

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 06:19:14AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: On 10-12-2014 20:41, Ken Moffat wrote: Meanwhile, although I find texinfo somewhat addictive, the world, or at least that part of it that Fernando has committed to BLFS, is moving ever onwards ;-) So, I'll be

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:53:08PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: BTW - did I ever mention how much I hate this stuff ? The only thing I can say is that we appreciate it. Thanks. I guess that what I actually hate, apart from the presumption that binaries are the way to go,

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-10 Thread akhiezer
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:39:59 + From: Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn . . For xindy : yes, I used distros in qemu - I did not get around to testing

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:48PM +, akhiezer wrote: Apols if is stated clearly earlier in thread, but: for non-build issues, if possible could you post - or refer to place(s) in thread - the cmdlines that you're seeing not work, along with the errors that you're seeing, and what is

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 08:40:38PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:48PM +, akhiezer wrote: Apols if is stated clearly earlier in thread, but: for non-build issues, if possible could you post - or refer to place(s) in thread - the cmdlines that you're seeing

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:11:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. [...] 2. My test script

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:11:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. [...] 2.

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 10:47:36AM +1300, Christopher Gregory wrote: I have yet to install texlive without the binary installer. I was waiting for you to find all the errors/bugs and get rid of them before I did. :) Yeah, despite what I said in another thread, there *is* a Spam folder in

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:00:15AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:11:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 02:57:41AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: I'll now see if I can find upstream's latest version of asymptote, and see if I can confirm that the failure while installing the docs is caused by gcc-4.9.2. Even if that does indicate what to blame, it does not provide a

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:00:15AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:11:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. [...] 2. My test script for xindy now fails, because the index (which is the whole point of xindy) is not

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. [...] 2. My test script for xindy now fails, because the index (which is the whole point

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: 2. My test script for xindy now fails, because the index (which is the whole point of xindy) is not created. That was how things used to be when my clisp build was inadequate. Not sure if this is the same problem, I did see an

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: There is also the problem with Valgrind failing when using pdfxmltex during 'make download-docs' (#5882) which Christopher reported. Now that I have downloaded the valgrind source, I find that was already broken in LFS/BLFS-7.6

Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn

2014-12-05 Thread Christopher Gregory
On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 20:54 +, Ken Moffat wrote: This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. I've been building it in my build of LFS-svn-20141124 with BLFS-svn-20141127. Two breakages : 1. The asymptote