Changeset f65def9

Timestamp:

03/28/2023 10:41:24 PM (18 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

d5077f79

Parents:

fd52540

Message:

Allow binary asy to be used on BLFS.

It has been broken since TL2020. Thanks to xry111 for the minimal
workaround.

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
     -->
    <listitem>
+     <para>March 28th, 2023</para>
+     <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[ken] - The binary version of <command>asy</command>
+         has been compiled against libGLX since 2020 - work around
+         that in case anyone wishes to use it in future. Partly addresses
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17823">#17823</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
      <para>March 27th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>

pst/typesetting/tl-installer.xml

@@ -135 +135 @@
       <xref linkend="freeglut"/>.
     </para>
+    <para> <!-- needed, but cannot recommend :-) -->
+      The binary version of asy is linked to libGLX.so.0 from
+      <ulink url="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd/">libglvnd</ulink>,
+      but installing that will break future updates of BLFS packages such as
+      <xref linkend="mesa"/>. Work around that by creating a symlink as the
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+    <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sv libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGLX.so.0</userinput></screen>
     <note>
       <para>