Changeset 1e7ef03 for pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml

Timestamp:

06/23/2015 02:21:55 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

894bbb4

Parents:

17474ba

Message:

texlive: a few minor improvements before I start on the TL2015 changes

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@16149 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml

@@ -79 +79 @@
     <para role="recommended">
       <xref linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by dvisvgm, which is used by
-     <application>asy</application>.
+     <application>asy</application>, and also by <application>asy</application>
+     itself.
     </para>
     <para role="recommended">
       <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
       <xref linkend="libxcb"/> are needed for inimf, mf, pdfclose, pdfopen and
-      xdvixaw. But if you are using asy, or using <application>TeX</application>
+      xdvi-xaw. But if you are using asy, or using <application>TeX</application>
       to create a PDF file, you will need an <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
       (for PDF files, this is to support a PDF viewer of your choice, for example
@@ -92 +93 @@
       the optional non-wide-character ncurses library (for "some binary-only
       application") from the bottom of the <application>Ncurses</application>
-      page in LFS is needed for xindy.run which is used by
-      <application>xindy</application>
-    </para>
-    <para role="recommended">
-      If you are building on 32-bit x86, the binary version of asy needs <ulink
+      page in LFS is needed by <application>asy</application> (only for i386)
+      and also for xindy.run which is used by <application>xindy</application>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      The binary versions of <application>asy</application> need <xref
+      linkend="glu"/> and <xref linkend="freeglut"/>.
+    </para>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      If you are building for i386, the binary version of asy needs <ulink
       url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</ulink>, <xref linkend="glu"/> and <ulink
       url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz">libreadline-5.2</ulink>
       : this only requires <filename>libreadline.so.5.2</filename> which can be
-      manually copied from the <filename class="directory">shm/</filename>
+      manually copied from the <filename class="directory">lib/</filename>
       directory after running <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command>
       and then symlinked as <filename>libreadline.so.5</filename>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      As always with contributed binary software, it is possible that the required
+      dependencies may change when the installer is updated.
     </para>
     <!-- text for runtime deps, shared with texlive and pass 1 -->