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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[8dfc5c3] | 7 | <!ENTITY asymptote-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/asymptote/asymptote-&asymptote-version;.src.tgz">
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[347e59c] | 8 | <!ENTITY asymptote-download-ftp " ">
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[daafbc0e] | 9 | <!ENTITY asymptote-md5sum "73a20de9755fe4354d077a71178238db">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY asymptote-size "15 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY asymptote-buildsize "223 MB (55 MB installed,with all the dependencies which are within BLFS)">
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[8965351] | 12 | <!-- with 2.68 the j1 time was 2.5 SBU, slow enough to use a parallel build -->
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[daafbc0e] | 13 | <!ENTITY asymptote-time "1.5 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
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[347e59c] | 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect1 id="asymptote" xreflabel="asymptote-&asymptote-version;">
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| 17 | <?dbhtml filename="asymptote.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>asymptote-&asymptote-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="asymptote">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-asymptote">asymptote</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to asymptote</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | <application>Asymptote</application> is a powerful descriptive vector
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| 34 | graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for
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[47d5a9e5] | 35 | technical drawing. Labels and equations can be typeset with LaTeX. As
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| 36 | well as EPS, PDF and PNG output it can produce WebGL 3D HTML rendering
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| 37 | and (using <application>dvisvgm</application>) SVG output.
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[347e59c] | 38 | </para>
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| 39 |
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[ccc5a50] | 40 | &lfs111_checked;
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[347e59c] | 41 |
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| 42 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 43 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>
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| 46 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&asymptote-download-http;"/>
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| 47 | </para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&asymptote-download-ftp;"/>
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Download MD5 sum: &asymptote-md5sum;
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Download size: &asymptote-size;
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | Estimated disk space required: &asymptote-buildsize;
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | <listitem>
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| 70 | <para>
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| 71 | Estimated build time: &asymptote-time;
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </listitem>
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| 74 | </itemizedlist>
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| 75 |
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[8965351] | 76 | <!--<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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[fca98f3e] | 77 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 78 | <listitem>
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| 79 | <para>
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| 80 | Required patch:
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| 81 | <ulink url="&patch-root;/asymptote-&asymptote-version;-ghostscript_fix-1.patch"/>
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| 82 | </para>
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| 83 | </listitem>
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[8965351] | 84 | </itemizedlist>-->
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[fca98f3e] | 85 |
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| 86 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">asymptote Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 87 |
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[347e59c] | 88 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 89 | <para role="required">
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[0e6052db] | 90 | <xref linkend="gs"/> and
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[347e59c] | 91 | <xref linkend="texlive"/>
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| 92 | </para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 95 | <para role="recommended">
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[20201cb] | 96 | <xref linkend="curl"/>,
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[dd07d82e] | 97 | <xref linkend="freeglut"/>,
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[f527eeb] | 98 | <xref linkend="gc"/>,
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| 99 | <xref linkend="glew"/>,
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| 100 | <xref linkend="glm"/> and
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[dd07d82e] | 101 | <xref linkend="libtirpc"/>
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[347e59c] | 102 | </para>
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| 103 |
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[47d5a9e5] | 104 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended at runtime</bridgehead>
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| 105 | <para role="recommended">
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| 106 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="dvisvgm"/>
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| 107 | </para>
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| 108 |
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[347e59c] | 109 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 110 | <para role="optional">
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[dd07d82e] | 111 | <xref linkend="fftw"/>,
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[47d5a9e5] | 112 | <xref linkend="gsl"/>,
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[daafbc0e] | 113 | <xref linkend="libsigsegv"/>,
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| 114 | both <xref linkend="boost"/> and
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| 115 | <ulink url="https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/releases/">rapidjson</ulink>
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| 116 | to use
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| 117 | <ulink url="https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/implementors/tools/">LSP</ulink>
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| 118 | which can be used with
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| 119 | <ulink url="https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/doc/Language-server-protocol.html#index-LSP/">emacs</ulink>
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[347e59c] | 120 | </para>
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| 121 |
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[746bac1] | 122 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (at runtime)</bridgehead>
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[347e59c] | 123 | <para role="optional">
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[d425952] | 124 | <xref linkend="imagemagick"/> to convert output to other formats such as
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| 125 | JPEG or to create animated GIFs,
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[746bac1] | 126 | <ulink url="https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/">PyQt5</ulink> (not tested,
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| 127 | has a build dependency of <xref linkend="qt5"/>) to use xasy.
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[347e59c] | 128 | </para>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 131 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/asymptote"/>
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| 132 | </para>
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| 133 | </sect2>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 136 | <title>Installation of asymptote</title>
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[e99822d] | 137 |
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| 138 | <!-- Editors: for testing this, the minimal latex functionality is
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| 139 | covered by the cylinder and triangle tests in
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[c9aa980] | 140 | https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/latex-test-20190318.tar.xz
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[e99822d] | 141 | but the more interesting stuff (WebM html, svg, png, pdf) is tested in
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[c9aa980] | 142 | https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/asy-nontex-testfiles/asy-test-20200123.tar.xz
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[0e9ca44] | 143 | -->
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[8965351] | 144 | <!--<para>
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[fca98f3e] | 145 | First apply a patch for building with ghostscript-9.53:
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| 146 | </para>
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| 147 |
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[8965351] | 148 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../asymptote-&asymptote-version;-ghostscript_fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
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[fca98f3e] | 149 |
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[347e59c] | 150 | <para>
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| 151 | Install <application>asymptote</application> by running the following
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| 152 | commands:
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| 153 | </para>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
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[e5345a05] | 156 |
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| 157 | ./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year; \
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| 158 | --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/$TEXARCH \
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| 159 | --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist \
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| 160 | --infodir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info \
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| 161 | --libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist \
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| 162 | --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man \
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[daafbc0e] | 163 | --disable-lsp \
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[e5345a05] | 164 | --enable-gc=system \
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| 165 | --with-latex=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/latex \
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| 166 | --with-context=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/tex/context/third &&
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| 167 |
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[347e59c] | 168 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <para>
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| 171 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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| 172 | </para>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <para>
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| 175 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 176 | </para>
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| 177 |
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[0841e371] | 178 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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[347e59c] | 179 |
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| 180 | </sect2>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 183 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 186 | href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>
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| 187 |
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[fa3edfef] | 188 | <para>
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| 189 | <parameter>--libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist;</parameter>:
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| 190 | This parameter ensures that the <filename
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| 191 | class="directory">asymptote</filename> directory will similarly
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| 192 | overwrite any files installed by install-tl-unx.
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| 193 | </para>
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| 194 |
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[daafbc0e] | 195 | <para>
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| 196 | <parameter>--disable-lsp</parameter>: The Language Server Protocol is
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| 197 | enabled by default, with several third-party sources included, but it
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| 198 | does not build unless boost and repidjson have been installed.
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| 199 | </para>
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| 200 |
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[fa3edfef] | 201 | <para>
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| 202 | <parameter>--enable-gc=system</parameter>: this ensures that the system
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| 203 | version of <filename class="libraryfile">libgc.so</filename> will be used
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| 204 | instead of the version shipped with this package.
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| 205 | </para>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <para>
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| 208 | <parameter>--with-latex= ... --with-context=</parameter>: These switches
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| 209 | ensure that style files and a tex file will be installed into the
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| 210 | <application>texlive</application> directories instead of creating a
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| 211 | <filename class="directory">texmf-local</filename> directory for them.
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| 212 | </para>
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[110481b] | 213 |
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[0841e371] | 214 | <!-- commenting for now: 2.44 installs asymptote.info in both places
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| 215 | so the old version no longer remains
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| 216 |
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[f95867c] | 217 | <para>
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| 218 | <command>rm -fv /opt/texlive/.../asymptote.info</command>:
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| 219 | This deletes the file installed by <application>texlive</application>.
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| 220 | Exceptionally, asymptote will create an <filename
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| 221 | class="directory">asymptote/</filename> subdirectory for its own
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| 222 | <filename>asymptote.info</filename> even though a possibly older
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| 223 | version from <xref linkend="texlive"/> is in the main
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| 224 | <application>texlive</application>
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| 225 | <filename class="directory">info/</filename> directory. Both the
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| 226 | new version and the existing <filename>asy-faq.info</filename>
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| 227 | <emphasis>will</emphasis> be found by <command>info</command>.
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[0841e371] | 228 | </para>-->
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[f95867c] | 229 |
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[347e59c] | 230 | </sect2>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 233 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 234 |
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| 235 | <segmentedlist>
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| 236 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 237 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 238 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <seglistitem>
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| 241 | <seg>
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| 242 | asy, xasy
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| 243 | </seg>
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| 244 | <seg>
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| 245 | None
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| 246 | </seg>
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| 247 | <seg>
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[a06d59dc] | 248 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;texmf-dist/asymptote,
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| 249 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/doc/asymptote,
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[347e59c] | 250 | /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/info/asymptote
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| 251 | </seg>
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| 252 | </seglistitem>
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| 253 | </segmentedlist>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | <variablelist>
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| 256 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 257 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 258 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <varlistentry id="asy">
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| 261 | <term><command>asy</command></term>
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| 262 | <listitem>
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| 263 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 264 | is a vector graphics program
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[347e59c] | 265 | </para>
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| 266 | <indexterm zone="asymptote asy">
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| 267 | <primary sortas="b-asy">asy</primary>
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| 268 | </indexterm>
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| 269 | </listitem>
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| 270 | </varlistentry>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | <varlistentry id="xasy">
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| 273 | <term><command>xasy</command></term>
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| 274 | <listitem>
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| 275 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 276 | is a Python3 script providing a Qt5 GUI for asy
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[347e59c] | 277 | </para>
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| 278 | <indexterm zone="asymptote xasy">
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| 279 | <primary sortas="b-xasy">xasy</primary>
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| 280 | </indexterm>
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| 281 | </listitem>
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| 282 | </varlistentry>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | </variablelist>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | </sect2>
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| 287 |
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| 288 | </sect1>
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