The main part of making the from source build of TeX Live use system libraries is now in place. I think I've managed to identify what does and does not get installed in the from-source build.
The details for the tl-installer are now starting to look messy - All the information around the installer is about the from-source recommendations / options / runtime dependencies, with a Note in the middle of the installer instructions. Certainly, the binary install linked to e.g. libGLU and libncurses on my system, but the from-source build does not. So saying the same dependencies are required is misleading. I want to confirm what is used by the binary on a fresh install, but that will have to wait until I build a new LFS system (hopefully, next week, I need to update my scripts). I already have a list of what I *think* is used, but a few of those libs might have been picked up as dependencies of other libs, because of how I installed them, so an install on a minimal system (no Xorg) is needed. I also need to deal with xindy (extra configure switches) and asy (separate build in a subdirectory of the TeX Live source), and to try to sort out my current fudge words about the Optional dependencies. What I am minded to do is to split the current Tex Live into install-tl-unx (the binary installer) and TeX Live (building from source, after the binaries have been installed). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
