[blfs-dev] texlive-20110705: Stack overflow

2012-03-22 Thread Niko Sauer
CURRENT BLFS: Version SVN-20120320 Compiling TexLive-20110705 with gcc-4.6.2/glibc-2.14.1 has no difficulties, but when "tex file.tex" is run, a stack overflow occurs. This is due to a coding glitch in the source. A pointer overrun happens. The glitch was already present in the old TeTeX-3.0, b

Re: [blfs-dev] texlive

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > On 12/3/2011 8:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Option 1. Use the upstream installer but suggest the use /opt/texlive >> or some variant instead. >> >> Option 3. Use the upstream installer for a base installation and also >> build the executables and libraries. The LFS built

Re: [blfs-dev] texlive

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > On 12/3/2011 8:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Option 1. Use the upstream installer but suggest the use /opt/texlive >> or some variant instead. >> >> Option 3. Use the upstream installer for a base installation and also >> build the executables and libraries. The LFS built

Re: [blfs-dev] texlive

2011-12-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 12/3/2011 8:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Option 1. Use the upstream installer but suggest the use /opt/texlive > or some variant instead. > > Option 3. Use the upstream installer for a base installation and also > build the executables and libraries. The LFS built executables, and > optionally

Re: [blfs-dev] texlive

2011-12-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:20:45 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Option 4. Yet another option is to completely remove TeX from the book. > It is usually referenced in other packages to rebuild documentation. > I really doubt many users do that. > > Right now I lean towards option 3, but need to get f

[blfs-dev] texlive

2011-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been looking at texlive and am trying to figure out how to proceed. The first thing to note is that upstream distribution links their binaries statically, at least as far as the texlive libraries go (there are two). There are a huge number of programs in the livetex distribution. I don't