On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 19:44 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > ISTR that when I first touched the texlive installer, I changed its > page to say : The programs are always installed in an <ARCH>-linux > subdirectory. > > Fernando later noticed that on i686 the directory is called > i386-linux, so the next sentence now says: Always replace <ARCH> by > x86_64, for 64bit, or by i386, for 32bit, respectively, depending on > the architecture that you are using in your actual installation > location. > > For people who read the book that is probably adequate, but I guess > that it breaks copy-and-paste scripts, and scripts which work from > the XML (e.g. jhalfs). Would it help if I changed it to: > > "The programs are always installed in an <ARCH>-linux subdirectory, > and on 32-bit x86 this is always i386-linux. For x86_64 and i?86 we > can generate this as $TEXARCH: > > export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') > > cat >> extrapaths.sh as now, except > (i.) cat ... << EOF > i.e. NOT "EOF" because we want it to evaluate the variable > (ii.) last line: > pathappend /opt/texlive/2014/bin/$TEXARCH > > unset TEXARCH" > > Yes ? No ? > > ĸen > -- > Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. > Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
Hello Ken, For the ease of copy and paste I think that this is a great idea. If it saves the user a little more time I am all for it. It won't really effect me much anymore due to the fact that I now have close on 500 bash scripts to install the book and that is growing as I have yet to add kde and xfce and a few others. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
