Changeset 2eac7f7

Timestamp:

04/02/2023 04:28:44 PM (6 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.0, kea, lazarus, lxqt, qt5new, trunk, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

9167f8d

Parents:

6a8a6a0

git-author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (04/01/2023 01:32:33 AM)

git-committer:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (04/02/2023 04:28:44 PM)

Message:

Move (re)creation of kpathsea symlink -

Move it from before configuring dvisvgm to after installing
texlive. For dvisvgm there is no difference, but this ensures that
an existing version of evince linked against kpathsea can work
after texlive/2022 is replaced by texlive/2023.

Location:

pst/typesetting

Files:

• dvisvgm.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• texlive.xml (modified) (1 diff)

pst/typesetting/dvisvgm.xml

@@ -112 +112 @@
  Or, use use it to convert first or specified page(s) of a PDF to SVG - see the man page
 -->
-    <para>
-      To enable the build system to link to
-      <filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea.so</filename>, as the
-      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user 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>
+
+   <!-- symlink for kpathsea moved to texlive so that if it already exists for
+   evince from a previous year it will be recreated -->
 
     <para>

pst/typesetting/texlive.xml

@@ -364 +364 @@
 
     <para>
+      To enable an existing install of <xref linkend="evince"/> to now
+      link to this new version of
+      <filename class="libraryfile">libkpathsea.so</filename> and to
+      allow a new <xref linkend="dvisvgm"/> to link to it, as the
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> 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>
+
+    <para>
       You can now proceed to <xref linkend="asymptote"/>,
       <xref linkend="biber"/>, <xref linkend="dvisvgm"/> and / or <xref