Changeset 45d9840 for pst/typesetting/texlive.xml

Timestamp:

02/09/2014 03:42:03 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 7.10, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, ken/inkscape-core-mods, krejzi/svn, lazarus, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226

Children:

bf7a21dd

Parents:

f8949680

Message:

The main part of the changes for using system libraries on Tex Live.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@12683 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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• pst/typesetting/texlive.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

pst/typesetting/texlive.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TeX Live Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (to build from source)</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      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.
+      <xref linkend="gs"/>,
+      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
+      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
+      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
+      <xref linkend="graphite2"/>,
+      <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/> (linked to graphite2),
+      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
+      <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
+      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
+    </para>
+
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to build from source)</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
-      The source ships with its own versions of <emphasis>many</emphasis> of
-      these libraries, and will use them unless it is forced to use the system
-      versions.  Work is in progress to deal with this, in the meantime please
-      see<ulink url="http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/4647"> ticket
-      #4647</ulink>.
-      <xref linkend="gs"/>,
-      <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
-      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
-      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
-      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
-      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
-      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
+      The source ships with its own versions of these 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://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/">CLISP</ulink>,
-      <xref linkend="lua"/>,
-      <ulink url="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;id=TECkitDownloads">TECkit</ulink>, and
-      <xref linkend="graphite2"/>
+      <ulink url="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;id=TECkitDownloads">TECkit</ulink>
+    </para>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Runtime dependencies if building from source</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      not yet adequate to rebuild this),
+      <xref linkend="tk"/> for ep2pdftk.
     </para>
 
@@ -110 +123 @@
 
     <para>First, unpack the installer and change into the installer's
-    directory, <filename class='directory'>install-tl-20130730</filename>.
-    This directory name may change if the installer package is updated
-    by the upstream maintainers.</para>
+    directory, <filename class='directory'>install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt;</filename>.
+    This directory name changes frequently when the installer is updated,
+    so replace &lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; by the correct directory name.</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>tar -xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
-cd install-tl-20130730 </userinput></screen>
+cd install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; </userinput></screen>
 
     <note><para>The distribution binaries installed below use static linking
@@ -126 +139 @@
     user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput role="root">TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of
@@ -138 +151 @@
     scripts as recommended in <xref linkend='postlfs-config-profile'/>, update
     the needed paths by appending to the <filename>extrapaths.sh</filename> script.
-    Be sure to adjust the paths below to reflect your actual installation
-    location.  In addition, the path to the binaries will be affected by your
-    system architecture.</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+    The programs are always installed in an &lt;ARCH&gt;-linux subdirectory.  If
+    you are not using x86_64, <emphasis>always</emphasis> change that to your
+    actual installation location.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput role="root">cat &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
 pathappend /usr/share/man                        MANPATH
 pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man  MANPATH
@@ -158 +171 @@
     /etc/profile</command>.</para>
 
-    <para>At this point the installation is complete.  If building from
-    source is desired, extract the source package as usual and continue.</para>
-
-    <note>
-      <para>If you do not have Xorg installed add <userinput>--without-x</userinput>
-      to the configure command.</para>
-
-      <para>If you do not have fontconfig installed, add
-      <userinput>--disable-xdvipdfmx</userinput> to the configure command.</para>
-    </note>
-
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                  \
-            --disable-native-texlive-build \
-            --enable-build-in-source-tree  \
-            --without-luatex               \
-            --enable-mktextex-default      \
-            --with-banner-add=" - BLFS"    &amp;&amp;
+    <para>At this point the binary installation is complete.</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
+    &lt;ARCH&gt;-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>asy</application> and <application>xindy</application> which were
+    installed by the binary installer.</para> <!-- FIXME -->
+
+    <para>  If building from
+    source is desired, continue as a normal user.  Extract the source package as
+    usual.  Again, change x86_64-linux to whatever matches your architecture.
+    The developers do not recommend building in the source directory, so enter
+    the following commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
+cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;
+
+../configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/2013 \
+             --bindir=/opt/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux \
+             --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2013 \
+             --includedir=/usr/include \
+             --infodir=/opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info \
+             --libdir=/usr/lib \
+             --mandir=/opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man \
+             --disable-native-texlive-build \
+             --disable-static --enable-shared \
+             --with-system-libgs \
+             --with-system-poppler \
+             --with-system-freetype2 \
+             --with-system-fontconfig \
+             --with-system-libpng \
+             --with-system-icu \
+             --with-system-graphite2 \
+             --with-system-harfbuzz \
+             --with-system-xpdf \
+             --with-system-poppler \
+             --with-system-cairo \
+             --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>.</para>
 
-    <para>In order to gather the built files in one place, use
-    <userinput>make install</userinput> to put then in a temproary location:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make DESTDIR=$PWD/texlive-tmp install</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Now copy the executables to the <application>TeX Live</application>
-    binary directory.  Be sure to adjust the destination directory for your
-    installation.  As the  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
     user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>find texlive-tmp/usr/bin -type f -exec cp -v {} /opt/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux \;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <note><para>If you passed the option <option>--enable-shared</option> to the
-    configure command, the two libraries, libkpathsea.so, libptexenc.so and their
-    symbolic links will also need to be copied to /usr/lib.</para></note>
+<screen><userinput role="root">make 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>
+      <option>--without-x</option>: use this if you do not have Xorg installed.
+    </para>
 
   </sect2>