So, I had a first attempt at building and installing TeX Live
without the binary, using my existing commands for the main part of
the build, and to build for asymptote. Based on Robby Workman's
SlackBuild which I referred to earlier this week (and yes, it turns
out that _was_ referred to in the past, in January), with the
texlive-20140525-texmf tarball to provide many of the things which
otherwise come from the binary installer (scripts, docs, support
files - probably including fonts). Results are not good.
1. texlive itself builds and passes all its own tests.
2. asymptote builds, but terminates on the first test [ it reports
PASSED, and continues, when built on top of the binary - I guess
that it perhaps needs some TeX programs or scripts during the
test (the -texmf tarball includes a lot of asy files), and I
also note that the SlackBuild did not seem to build asymptote.
[ FIXED - see below ]
I then installed the main texlive, intending to come back to asy
later.
After that, I untarred the texmf files.
My PATH setup is different from the book's : I use a couple of
wildcards to see if there is a file /opt/texlive/20*/*/bin/pdflatex
so that it works whatever the year, and for both i386 and x86_64,
and if it exists I add it's directory to my PATH. This takes effect
when I start a new session. But this time, it didn't - pdflatex is
missing.
At that point, I started to comare what was in the bin/<ARCH>
directory (doing bind mounts to directories on my scratch partition
can be useful :) using ls -1F, then I grepped for lines matching
'^<' or '^>'. There are 35 missing symlinks.
Googling was painful (lots of answers related to mac-ports, distros
where a package is broken into parts, and the tl installer), but
eventually I found an entry in Magnus's thread, and the following
entry, where he tried using ./Build, sounds encouraging :
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2014-January/074369.html
For the asymptote tests, I've now run them successfully (the texmf
tarball is in place). So, it looks as if I'll have to untar texmf
_first_, for the asy testsuite (and, for all I know, for xindy's
testsuite). And, I'll need to find out how to configure what Build
does. That sounds a bit worrying, but perhaps I'm just scarred from
encountering biber and at least one of the perl modules that
requires, which use Build.PL :-(
Here endeth my first from-source-only attempt at TeX Live.
ĸen
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