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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!-- utah -->
  <!ENTITY texlive-download-http "https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-md5sum        "bec84c5d6e340967783302f432c78efe">
  <!ENTITY texlive-size          "66 MB">

  <!ENTITY texlive-buildsize      "8.5 GB including the additional download and the tests, 7.7 GB installed">
  <!ENTITY texlive-time           "2.3 SBU including the additional download and the tests, building with parallelism=4">

  <!-- utah -->
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-http "https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texlive-version;-texmf.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-md5sum        "704fb39c69e3710b8e9e9158cec5047a">
  <!ENTITY texlive-texmf-size          "3.7 GB">

  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-download-http "https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tug/historic/systems/texlive/&texlive-year;/texlive-&tex-tlpdb-version;-tlpdb-full.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-md5sum        "5078a7ddaa7b309b7392e33916b817f7">
  <!ENTITY texlive-tlpdb-size          "3.2 MB">

]>


<sect1 id="texlive" xreflabel="texlive-&texlive-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="texlive.html"?>


  <title>texlive-&texlive-version;-source</title>

  <indexterm zone="texlive">
    <primary sortas="a-texlive">texlive</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to TeX Live from source</title>

    <note>
      <para>
        According to <ulink url="https://www.tug.org/historic/"/> the master
        site in France only supports ftp and rsync. Now that ftp is generally
        deprecated, that page has links to mirrors, some of which support https,
        e.g. in Utah and Chemnitz as well as in China. If you prefer to use a
        different mirror from the example links here, you will need to navigate
        to systems/historic/texlive/&texlive-year; or systems/texlive/&texlive-year;
        as the case may be.
        <!-- the chinese mirros do not use a 'historic' subdirectory. -->
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Most of TeX Live can be built from source without a pre-existing
      installation, but <application>xindy</application> (for indexing) needs
      working versions of <command>latex</command> and
      <command>pdflatex</command> when configure is run, and the test suite
      and install for <command>asy</command> (for vector graphics) will fail
      if TeX has not already been installed. Additionally,
      <application>biber</application> is not provided within the
      <application>texlive</application> source and the version of
      <application>dvisvgm</application> in the
      <application>texlive</application> tree cannot be built
      if shared system libraries are used.
    </para>

      <para>
      </para>
    <para>
      All of those packages are dealt with on their own pages and can be
      built after installing this package. If you have not already done so, you
      should start at <xref linkend="tex-path"/> so that the final commands to
      initialize the new installation will be found.
    </para>

    &lfs120_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &texlive-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &texlive-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

      <para>
        Much of the texlive environment (including scripts, documentation,
        fonts, and various other files) is not part of the source tarball.
        You must download it separately. This will give you all of the
        additional files which are provided by a full install of the binary
        version, there is no realistic way to restrict which parts get
        installed.
      </para>

      <para>
        Because of the size of this package, it is unlikely to be mirrored by
        BLFS mirrors.  In case of difficulty, go to http://www.ctan.org/mirrors/
        to find a more-accessible mirror.
      </para>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-texmf-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-texmf-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-texmf-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-texmf-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

      <para>
        From the 2019 year, the tlpdb database of the packages within texlive is
        no-longer installed with the source. But <command>texdoc</command> needs
        a cache file derived from this (and will create the cache on its first
        run).
      </para>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-tlpdb-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-tlpdb-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &texlive-tlpdb-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &texlive-tlpdb-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch: <ulink url=
          "&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source-security_fix-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TeX Live from source Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
    </para>

    <!-- text for recommended libraries -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texrecommendlibs.xml"/>

<!-- the following ensures jhalfs will set paths before running texlive -->

    <para role="recommended">
      Furthermore, the instructions below assume you are using the layout
      described in <xref linkend="tex-path"/>.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <!-- text for optional deps -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texoptional.xml"/>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Runtime dependencies</bridgehead>
    <!-- text for runtime deps, shared with tl-installer -->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/texruntime.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of TeX Live</title>

    <para>
      Install TeX Live by running the following commands:
    </para>

    <caution>
      <para>
        If you wish to upgrade to current <application>texlive</application>
        on an older system where extra packages (<application>asymptote</application>,
        <application>biber</application>, <application>dvisvgm</application>, or
        <application>xindy</application>) have been installed, you will need to
        reinstall those as well as fixing up your <literal>PATH</literal> for
        <literal>$TEXLIVE_PREFIX</literal>.
      </para>
    </caution>

    <note>
      <para>
        A successful install requires some texlive
        commands to be run as the root user, so we will export the TEXARCH
        variable to let <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> use it.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Now, as a normal user:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;

patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-security_fix-1.patch &amp;&amp;

mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
cd    texlive-build &amp;&amp;

../configure -C                                   \
    --prefix=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX                      \
    --bindir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH         \
    --datarootdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX                 \
    --includedir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/include          \
    --infodir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib                  \
    --mandir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                \
    --disable-static --enable-shared              \
    --disable-dvisvgm                             \
    --with-system-cairo                           \
    --with-system-fontconfig                      \
    --with-system-freetype2                       \
    --with-system-gmp                             \
    --with-system-graphite2                       \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                        \
    --with-system-icu                             \
    --with-system-libgs                           \
    --with-system-libpaper                        \
    --with-system-libpng                          \
    --with-system-mpfr                            \
    --with-system-pixman                          \
    --with-system-zlib                            \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &amp;&amp;

make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
      <!-- It started to fail with libpaper-2.0.10 which rounds differently
           in the 6th place of decimals, causing diff to fail -->
      Two tests, <filename>psutils.test</filename> and
      <!-- Upstream say that encoding conversion procedure Encode::from_to()
      failed in fn-generate.perl, test now skips if that errors: possibly
      related to changes in perl-5.36 since I understand current slackware
      also sees this - ken -->
      <filename>eptexdir/wcfname.test</filename> are known to fail.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<!-- Editors, you can run 'make texlinks' in a DESTDIR by passing
DESTDIR#some/where -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-strip &amp;&amp;
/sbin/ldconfig     &amp;&amp;
make texlinks      &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv                                $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &amp;&amp;
tar -xf ../../texlive-&tex-tlpdb-version;-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>
        Only run <command>make texlinks</command> once. If it is rerun,
        it can change all the program symlinks so that they point to
        themselves and are useless.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Now install the additional files as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<!-- if texmf does not need to be patched, remove &amp;&amp; from first line,
 close userinput, screen, comment pushd, patch, popd -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../../texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX --strip-components=1</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Still as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
      initialize the new system (the command <command>fmtutil-sys
      --all</command> will produce
      a <emphasis>lot</emphasis> of output):
    </para>

<!-- Editors, fmtutil-sys can apparently only be run on
a real install, as root.  But mktexlsr can be run in a DESTDIR with
cd /YOUR/TEXMF/ROOT ; ls -LAR ./ >ls-R -->

<screen role="root"><userinput>mktexlsr &amp;&amp;
fmtutil-sys --all</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To allow <xref linkend="evince"/> or <xref linkend="dvisvgm"/> to
      link to <filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea.so</filename>,
      as the &root; user (re)create a symlink from
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -svf $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib/libkpathsea.so /usr/lib</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <!-- following based on fedora, but amended to run in the BLFS
           layout, where adapting fedora's script for mtxrun did not
           reliably work. ken -->
      <para>
        TeXLive includes some files for ConTeXt but the source of that is
        separate and has moved on from using luatex in the previous 'mkiv'
        version to using luametatex which can be pulled with git from <ulink
        url="https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex/tags">github luametatex</ulink>.
        LuaMetaTeX uses meson and ninja, but it does not fit easily into
        the BLFS layout of TeXLive.
        <!-- FIXME - when removing, keep that link to luametatex tags, and note
        that building and installing that to fit with a BLFS install of TeXLive
        will not be a trivial exercise.-->
      </para>
      <para>
        However, with a little extra work 'mkiv' files can still be processed
        using the files shipped in texmf.
      </para>

      <para>
        <emphasis>Fixes to use ConTeXt will be removed when the texlive source next
        has to be updated for either a vulnerability fix which requires backporting
        luatex changes, or for TeXLive 2024. If you are a BLFS user of ConTeXt you
        should be prepared to use the latest tag from github (the link is
        in first paragraph of this Note). Building and installing that to work with
        a BLFS install of TeXLive will not be a trivial exercise.</emphasis>
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
       The following steps, run as the
       <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, will create
       <command>mtxrun</command> and <command>context</command>.
     </para>

<!-- I've put blank lines in this to make it a little less hard to read. ken -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -e '/local template=\[\[--ini/s/\(primaryflags%\)\(.*\)/\1 --socket --shell-escape \2/' \
 -e '/local template=\[\[%primaryflags%/s/\(primaryflags%\)\(.*\)/\1 --socket --shell-escape \2/' \
  -i $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua &amp;&amp;

mkdir -pv $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/ &amp;&amp;

ln -sfv /$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua \
        /$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/mtxrun &amp;&amp;

cat > $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/context &lt;&lt; EOF
#!/bin/sh
export TEXMF=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist;
export TEXMFCNF=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/web2c;
export TEXMFCACHE=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/;
$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/mtxrun --script context "\$@"
EOF
chmod -v 0755 $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH/context</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      You can now proceed to <xref linkend="asymptote"/>,
      <xref linkend="biber"/>, <xref linkend="dvisvgm"/> and / or <xref
      linkend="xindy"/> if you wish to install them.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-security_fix-1.patch</command>:
      this updates the luatex source to v1.17.0 to fix security issues.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>sed -e '/local template (...)' (...)mtxrun.lua</command>: this makes a
      change in a texmf-dist script so that ConTeXt can now run with luatex-v1.17.0.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>-C</command>: create config.cache, this saves significant
      time in a parallel build.
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
     href="../../xincludes/tex-lib.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-shared.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-system.xml"/>
<!--
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-xpdf.xml"/>-->

    <para>
      <command>--disable-dvisvgm</command>: As noted above, the shipped version
      of dvisvgm, which has modified configuration files, cannot be built with
      shared system libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>/sbin/ldconfig</command>: this has to be run here so that
      <command>make texlinks</command> can use kpsewhich.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make texlinks</command> : this runs the texlinks.sh script
      to create symbolic links from formats to engines.  In
      practice, several of the targets such as <command>xetex</command> are now
      separate binaries and for these it will report "file already exists".
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>tar -xf texlive-&texmf-version;-texmf.tar.xz -C $TEXLIVE_PREFIX --strip-components=1</command>:
      the tarball contains the files for the texmf-dist directory, and because
      of its size we do not want to waste time and space untarring it and then
      copying the files.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/*
      $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/tlpkg/TeXLive/</command>: This puts the perl
      modules <filename>TLConfig.pm</filename> and <filename>TLUtils.pm</filename>
      into the directory where the binary installer puts them - it is at the
      start of the perl @INC@ PATH within texlive when installed using the above
      configure switches. Without these modules, texlive is unusable.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mktexlsr</command>: Create an <filename>ls-R</filename> file
      which lists what was installed - this is used by kpathsea to find files.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>fmtutil-sys --all</command>: This initializes the TeX formats,
      Metafont bases and Metapost mems.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mkdir -pv $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/</command>:
      the context script created after this will not run correctly if this
      directory is not present.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-x</option>: use this if you do not have Xorg installed.
    </para>

    <para>
      There are many other '--disable' or '--without' options. Some of them such
      as <option>--without-texinfo</option> are accepted but no longer do anything,
      others will prevent a program being built - but the far greater amount of
      space used for the related items in texmf means there is no obvious benefit
      from disabling a few of the programs.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts</seg>
        <seg>libkpathsea.so,
             libptexenc.so,
             libsynctex.so,
             libtexlua52.so,
             libtexluajit.so
        </seg>
        <seg>$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin,
             $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/include,
             $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/lib,
             $TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="texlive-programs">
        <term><command>TeX&nbsp;programs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
          href="../../xincludes/texprogs.xml"/>
          <indexterm zone="texlive texlive-programs">
            <primary sortas="b-texlive-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libkpathsea">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            (kpathsearch) exists to look up a file in a list of directories
            and is used by <command>kpsewhich</command>
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libkpathsea">
            <primary sortas="c-libkpathsea">libkpathsea.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libptexenc">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libptexenc.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library for Japanese pTeX (publishing TeX)
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libptexenc">
            <primary sortas="c-libptexenc">libptexenc.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libsynctex">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsynctex.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the SyncTeX (Synchronize TeXnology) parser library
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libsynctex">
            <primary sortas="c-libsynctex">libsynctex.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtexlua52">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtexlua52.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides Lua 5.2, modified for use with LuaTeX
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libtexlua52">
            <primary sortas="c-libtexlua52">libtexlua52.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtexluajit">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtexluajit.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides LuaJIT, modified for use with LuaJITTeX
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="texlive libtexluajit">
            <primary sortas="c-libtexluajit">libtexluajit.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>