Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:04 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: acheron <oliver@akephalos.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64) Message-ID: <87vdgw3lsb.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4B0F0198.1090807@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 %2B0200") References: <20091126211953.GA13605@skarabrae> <4B0F0198.1090807@otenet.gr>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > acheron wrote: >> I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. >> >> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html > > This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get > TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD. You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the TeXlive sources. I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run: keramida@kobe:/tmp$ tex This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD) **\relax *\bye No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. keramida@kobe:/tmp$ I think I kept notes while building the binaries. If I manage to find them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009 distribution from source. Note that the TeXlive sources are more than 1.7 GB of compressed data: keramida@kobe:/home/texlive$ ls -la total 1793074 drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel - 4 Oct 26 04:02 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel - 9 Nov 10 22:35 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 keramida wheel - 244 Oct 24 05:10 makeiso.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 keramida wheel - 1834745550 Oct 23 04:33 tldevsrc.tar.bz2 keramida@kobe:/home/texlive$ and will expand to at least 2 GB: keramida@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh . 2.1G . keramida@kobe:/opt/texlive$ The FreeBSD binaries themselves are really _very_ small: keramida@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh bin/i386-freebsd 34M bin/i386-freebsd keramida@kobe:/opt/texlive$ But you would have to build TL-2009 on FreeBSD 8.X to be able to use it in non-CURRENT snapshots. Notes for builders ================== If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set the following in your shell environment: export TL_MAKE='gmake' export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD"' export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite' You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/>. I used rsync to grab a snapshot of the sources, as described in <http://www.tug.org/texlive/svn/>. Then I followed the instructions at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html>; to build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X.
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