Author: ken
Date: Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
New Revision: 18805
Log:
Texlive-2017, and tag most of it for gcc-7.1. For the binary installer I have
not tagged that (only installed the release on 8.0), but I did run the pretest,
and therefore ncurses5 and readline6, on a gcc-7.1 system.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24
2017 (r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37
2017 (r18805)
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
<para>June 6th, 2017</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Update TeX Live to 2017. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9320">#9320</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-17.1.2. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9330">#9330</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017 (r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017 (r18805)
@@ -869,12 +869,12 @@
<!ENTITY paps-version "0.6.8">
<!-- Chapter 55 -->
-<!ENTITY texlive-version "20160523b">
-<!ENTITY texmf-version "20160523b">
+<!ENTITY texlive-version "20170524">
+<!ENTITY texmf-version "20170524">
<!-- the year is used when setting up PATHs in the tl-installer
page, as well as to reference the directory in texlive, also
in asymptote, biber and xindy -->
-<!ENTITY texlive-year "2016">
+<!ENTITY texlive-year "2017">
<!ENTITY asymptote-version "2.41">
<!ENTITY biber-version "2.7">
<!ENTITY biblatex-version "3.7">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017
(r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/asymptote.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
(r18805)
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
</para>
&lfs80_checked;
+ &gcc7_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017
(r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
(r18805)
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
<application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
&lfs80_checked;
+ &gcc7_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017
(r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
(r18805)
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@
<!ENTITY texlive-download-http " ">
<!ENTITY texlive-download-ftp
"ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source.tar.xz";>
- <!ENTITY texlive-md5sum "1e75db3412b3e2945fa94b0a423a29c7">
- <!ENTITY texlive-size "44 MB">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-md5sum "8f8fc301514c08a89a2e97197369c648">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-size "61 MB">
- <!ENTITY texlive-buildsize "4.9 GB including the additional download">
- <!ENTITY texlive-time "8.3 SBU including the additional download
(+0.3 SBU for the tests)">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-buildsize "6.0 GB including the additional download,
4.9 GB installed">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-time "8.2 SBU including the additional download
(+0.3 SBU for the tests)">
<!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-http " ">
<!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-ftp
"ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz";>
- <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-md5sum "65da9b4e2514379d128d4cf4e889b63b">
- <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-size "2.0 GB">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-md5sum "44bb5d71fc64ac90118f8c5013e39b89">
+ <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-size "2.3 GB">
]>
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
initialise the new installation will be found.</para>
&lfs80_checked;
+ &gcc7_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -103,11 +104,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Required patch: <ulink
-
url="&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-2.patch"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required patch: <ulink
-
url="&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-texmf-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
+
url="&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source-gcc7-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -172,7 +169,7 @@
</para>
<screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e
's/$/-linux/') &&
-patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-2.patch
&&
+patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-gcc7-1.patch &&
mkdir texlive-build &&
cd texlive-build &&
@@ -230,11 +227,12 @@
<para>Now install the additional files as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf
../../texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;
--strip-components=1 &&
+<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf
../../texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;
--strip-components=1</userinput></screen>
+<!-- commented until the next time texmf needs to be patched
pushd /opt/texlive/&texlive-year; &&
patch -Np1 -i /sources/texlive-&texlive-version;-texmf-upstream_fixes-1.patch
&&
popd
-</userinput></screen>
+</userinput></screen> -->
<para>Still as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
initialise the new system (the commands <command>fmtutil-sys
--all</command>
@@ -245,13 +243,6 @@
fmtutil-sys --all &&
mtxrun --generate</userinput></screen>
- <!-- December 2016, by TL2017 the problem might be fixed -->
- <para>Now, or if returning here because you were advised, fix a new
vulnerability.
- As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i '/^mpost,/d'
/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf &&
-fmtutil-sys --all</userinput></screen>
-
<para>You can now proceed to <xref linkend="asymptote"/>,
<xref linkend="biber"/> and / or <xref linkend="xindy"/> if you
wish to install them.</para>
@@ -261,12 +252,6 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para>
- <command>patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source...</command>:
- This fixes a segfault in upmendex which was corrected after the source
was
- released and is included in the binary installer.
- </para>
-
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017
(r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
(r18805)
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
<!ENTITY tl-installer-download-http
"http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz";>
<!ENTITY tl-installer-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum "deb47f94f74989101eefe61a54eda8c8">
- <!ENTITY tl-installer-date "20160622"> <!-- in the directory
name -->
- <!ENTITY tl-installer-size "3.2 MB">
+ <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum "8f8fc301514c08a89a2e97197369c648">
+ <!ENTITY tl-installer-date "20170524"> <!-- in the directory
name -->
+ <!ENTITY tl-installer-size "3.9 MB">
- <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize "4.7 GB if everything is included">
+ <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize "4.9 GB if everything is included">
<!ENTITY tl-installer-time "varies, depending on network speed
and traffic">
]>
@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@
install to a
<filename class="directory">&texlive-year;/</filename> directory.</para>
+ <para>
+ There are two reasons why you may wish to install the binaries in BLFS:
+ either you need a smaller install (e.g. at a minimum plain TeX without
+ LaTeX2e, ConTeXt, etc), or you wish to use <command>tlmgr</command> to
+ get updates whilst this version is supported (typically, until April of
+ the year after it was released). For the latter, you might prefer to
+ install in your <filename class="directory">/home</filename> directory
+ as an unprivileged user, and to then make corresponding changes to the
+ PATH in your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> or equivalent.
+ </para>
+
&lfs80_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -101,18 +112,21 @@
and also for xindy.run which is used by <application>xindy</application>
</para>
<para role="recommended">
- The binary versions of <application>asy</application> needs
+ The binary versions of <application>asy</application> need
<xref linkend="glu"/>, <xref linkend="freeglut"/>. and <ulink
-
url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz";>libreadline-5.2</ulink>
- : this only requires <filename>libreadline.so.5.2</filename> which can be
+
url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-6.3.tar.gz";>libreadline-6.3</ulink>
+ with the LFS patch <ulink
+
url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/readline/readline-6.3-upstream_fixes-3.patch";>readline-6.3-upstream_fixes-1.patch</ulink>
+ : asy only requires <filename>libreadline.so.6.3</filename> which can be
manually copied from the <filename class="directory">shlib/</filename>
directory after running <command>configure</command> and
<command>make</command>
- and then symlinked as <filename>libreadline.so.5</filename>.
+ and then symlinked as <filename>libreadline.so.6</filename>.
</para>
<para>
As always with contributed binary software, it is possible that the
required
- dependencies may change when the installer is updated.
+ dependencies may change when the installer is updated. In particular,
these
+ dependencies have only been checked on x86_64.
</para>
<!-- text for runtime deps, shared with texlive -->
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
@@ -153,7 +167,9 @@
e.g. if your x86_64 processor does not support 3dnowext or 3dnow, the
2014-06-28 binary failed in conTeXt when running LuaTeX, although lualatex
worked, as did the i686 binaries on the same machine. In such cases, the
- easiest solution is to install texlive from source.
+ easiest solution is to install texlive from source. Similarly, the x86_64
+ binary version of <command>asy</command> runs very slowly when creating 3-D
+ diagrams.
</para>
</note>
@@ -164,7 +180,7 @@
<para>This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of
platform, packages, directories, and other options. The full installation
- scheme will require about 4.2 gigabytes of disk space. The time to
complete
+ scheme will require about 4.9 gigabytes of disk space. The time to
complete
the download will depend on your internet connection speed and the
number of packages selected.</para>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml Tue Jun 6 18:01:24 2017
(r18804)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/xindy.xml Tue Jun 6 19:08:37 2017
(r18805)
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
</para>
&lfs80_checked;
+ &gcc7_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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