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

  <!ENTITY texlive-source-download-http " ">
  <!ENTITY texlive-source-download-ftp  "ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/&texlive-year;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY texlive-source-md5sum        "09ee265ff51637827559affc7304078c">
  <!ENTITY texlive-source-size          "40 MB">

  <!-- buildsize is the source dir, plus the kpathsea files installed to /usr.
   The progs in bin/ARCH/ seem slightly smaller (shared libs) -->
  <!ENTITY texlive-buildsize            "555 MB">
  <!ENTITY texlive-time                 "8.4 SBU">
]>

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

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

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

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

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

    <para>A binary version of the <application>TeX Live</application> package
    is installed at <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>. Here, we use that to rebuild
    the compiled programs from source.</para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&texlive-source-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&texlive-source-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &texlive-source-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &texlive-source-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">TeX Live Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="tl-installer"/> or a previous version of TeX Live
      (untested, you would need to alter the configure switches which refer
      to &texlive-year; so that it overwrites your existing installation, or
      else copy everything to the location for the current year), and
      <xref linkend="clisp"/> (to build <command>xindy</command> which is an
      index processor for multi-lingual index creation)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gs"/> (for dvisvgm - used by asymptote which provides a
      mathematical coordinate-based framework for technical drawing),
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
    </para>
    <para>
      The source ships with its own versions of <emphasis>many</emphasis>
      libraries, and will use them unless it is forced to use the system
      versions.  The following are recommended so that the system version
      will be used:
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="gc"/>,
      <xref linkend="graphite2"/>,
      <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/> (linked to graphite2),
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpaper"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
      <xref linkend="poppler"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para>
      The source ships with its own versions of several libraries which are either
      not under active development, or only used for limited functionality.  If
      you install these, as with some other optional dependencies in this book you
      will need to tell <command>configure</command> to use the system versions.
      <ulink url="http://libgd.bitbucket.org">GD</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://fossies.org/linux/misc/t1lib-5.1.2.tar.gz/">t1lib</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zziplib/">ZZIPlib</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;id=TECkitDownloads">TECkit</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Runtime dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      Some (re-installed) scripts will use
      <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="ruby"/>.
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/texlive"/></para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>These instructions will overwrite the corresponding files from the
    binary installer.  As with the installer, change x86_64-linux to whatever
    matches your architecture.</para>

    <para>Please note that installing from source will recompile the binary
    programs and recreate the <literal>man</literal> and <literal>info</literal>
    files.  It will also overwrite the scripts - some of these may be older
    versions than those from the newer installer.  It will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
    recreate any of the following: the more than 200 symlinks in the
    x86_64-linux directory (some are alternate names, many are pointers to
    the scripts), html files, PDF files, licenses, README files, two config
    files (<filename>texmf.cnf</filename> and <filename>texmfcnf.lua</filename>),
    nor the many package and font files in
    <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> and
    <filename class="directory">texmf-var</filename>, nor the files recording
    the actions of the installer, and the <filename>ls-R</filename> files listing
    what was originally installed.</para>

    <para>At the moment, these instructions do not rebuild
    <application>biber</application> or <application>xindy</application> which were
    installed by the binary installer.  See the "Special considerations for ..."
    paragraphs of
    <ulink url="http://tug.org/texlive/build.html">Building TeX Live</ulink>.
    Asy and the rest of asymptote is by default not rebuilt, so we have to
    separately run <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command> in its
    directory.
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;

../configure                                        \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;                      \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/x86_64-linux     \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;                 \
    --includedir=/usr/include                       \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --libdir=/usr/lib                               \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                  \
    --disable-static --enable-shared                \
    --with-system-cairo                             \
    --with-system-fontconfig                        \
    --with-system-freetype2                         \
    --with-system-graphite2                         \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                          \
    --with-system-icu                               \
    --with-system-libgs                             \
    --with-system-libpng                            \
    --with-system-pixman                            \
    --with-system-poppler                           \
    --with-system-xpdf                              \
    --with-system-zlib                              \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS"                     \
    --enable-xindy                                  \
    --enable-xindy-rules                            \
    --enable-xindy-doc                              \
    --with-clisp-runtime=system</userinput></screen>

    <para>Asymptote has to be separately configured.  It ships with its own copy
    of the gc source tarball, and will only use the system version if that local
    source is removed.
    </para>

<screen><userinput>pushd ../utils/asymptote &amp;&amp;
rm -v gc-7.4.0.tar.gz &amp;&amp;

echo "ac_cv_lib_m_sqrt=yes"     >config.cache &amp;&amp;
echo "ac_cv_lib_z_deflate=yes" >>config.cache &amp;&amp;

./configure LIBS="-ltirpc "                         \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/                     \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/x86_64-linux     \
    --enable-texlive-build                          \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist      \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --cache-file=config.cache &amp;&amp;
popd &amp;&amp;

make &amp;&amp;
make -C ../utils/asymptote</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check &amp;&amp;
    make -C utils/asymptote check</command>.</para>

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

<screen><userinput role="root">make install &amp;&amp;
make -C ../utils/asymptote install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>
      <parameter>--prefix=, --bindir=, --datarootdir=, --infodir=, --mandir= ...
      </parameter>: these switches ensure that the files installed from source
      will overwrite the corresponding files previously installed by
      <application>install-tl</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--includedir=, --libdir= ...</parameter> : these switches ensure
      that the libraries will be found at runtime, and that programs can be
      compiled against them.
    </para>

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

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-shared</parameter>: Use shared versions of
      <filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea</filename> and
      <filename class="libraryfile">libptexenc</filename>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-system-...</parameter>: Unless this parameter is used,
      the included versions of these libraries  will be statically compiled
      into the programs which need them.  If you decided not to install a
      recommended library, omit the corresponding switches.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-system-xpdf</parameter>: Uniquely, this parameter has
      a non-standard meaning, it tells <command>configure</command> to use the
      system-installed <application>poppler</application> headers and library.
      Again, omit this if you have not installed
      <application>poppler</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>echo "ac_cv_lib_m_sqrt=yes" ... LIBS="-ltirpc " &gt;config.cache,
      ... --cache-file=config.cache</parameter> : The configure scripts in
      <application>TeX Live</application> are uncommon. Asymptote not only has to
      be separately configured and built, the configure script fails to find the
      shared <filename class="libraryfile">libtirpc.so</filename>.  Passing that
      in LIBS breaks the tests for (static) libm and (shared) libz, so we have to
      fix things up, in much the same way as when cross-compiling.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--without-x</option>: use this (and omit the configure and make in
      <filename>utils/asymptote</filename> if you do not have Xorg installed.
    </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</seg>
        <seg>/opt/texlive, /usr/include/kpathsea, /usr/include/ptexenc</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.
          </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>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>