texlive-2016

[ken@…]

​http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-June/038683.html

Everything is dated 20160523.

Anybody using the binary will want to use gnupg2 (or gnupg1, which is looked for first) because that is now used to verify both the initial downloads and any updates later installed using tlmgr.

Phew! I just got my gcc-6.1 build ready in time :)

[ken@…]

Weirdness: attempting to download the binary via ftp at ​ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2016/ asked for a username and password, and failed (appeared to need a valid user/password - I had tried anon + my email). Same for texmf. But I got the source. Then I looked at the local ctan mirror (not yet up to date, and no source at all). Retried ftp from tug.org, got them all.

[ken@…]

I've got a problem with the binary asy (at the moment I've only tested the binary versions). On BLFS-7.0 x86_64 with only vulnerability updates it works fine. But on recent svn with gcc-6.1 it craps out on the 'cylinder' test I added to my testfiles:

(./cylinder-1.tex

LaTeX Warning: File `cylinder-1+0_0.pdf' not found on input line 14.


! Package pdftex.def Error: File `cylinder-1+0_0.pdf' not found.

See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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l.14 ...-1+0_0.pdf}}}{\ASYprefix\jobname-1+0.prc}}

FWIW, line 14 of cylinder-1.tex (generated) is

\includemedia[noplaybutton,3Dlights=Headlamp,3Dmenu,3Dtoolbar=false,label=cylinder-1,3Daac=12.838470257,3Dc2w=0.624695048 -0.780868809 0 -0.178105069 -0.142484055 0.973641042 -0.760285921 -0.608228737 -0.228085776 1035.990105941 828.815129641 397.246811965,3Droo=1358.11888073,3Dpsob=H,3Dbg=1 1 1,add3Djscript=asylabels.js]{\phantom{\includegraphics[hiresbb]{\ASYprefix\jobname-1+0_0.pdf}}}{\ASYprefix\jobname-1+0.prc}}%

The prc file seems to be binary data. Boy, this texlive is fun.

[ken@…]

I took a look at the output on 7.9 where it worked, and compared it to this one, but I'm none the wiser. So I tried building asy from source. The same problem. Because the binary needs ncurses5, freeglut, readline5 and everything works with gcc-5 I assume one of thos is being miscompiled by gcc-6.

[ken@…]

I think I've succeeded, by adding -V to the asy invocation for the 3D test. Will do a clean install (I tried building asy separately) to confirm this.

[ken@…]

Good news, just when I was getting ready to edit: an updated version of the source (20160523b) without the many unwanted extra files which slipped into the original release - so it should be much smaller.

​http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-June/038926.html

I'm not sure if the patch will still be needed (I suspect it will be), nor if a fixed version of texmf with correct perms is going to appear.

[ken@…]

And now a new 'b' texmf.

I'll get to this once I've managed to get through all of the biber deps (#8007) on the initial 2016 source and texmf.

[ken@…]

Fixed at r17540