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Date:      Sat, 26 May 2012 13:05:26 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - is this going to happen or not?
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On 05/26/2012 11:33 AM, Nikola Lečić wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2012 10:38:18 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> On 05/26/2012 09:19 AM, Nikola Lečić wrote:
>> This is what I have done, and it has worked very well - except the
>> xdvi program that came with texlive was linked to a different version
>> of the xorg libraries!
> [...]
>> P.S.  How did I solve the xdvi problem?  I installed texlive from the
>> texlive web site.  Then I installed the FreeBSD print/teTeX port.
>> Then I set PATH so that it picked up most of the commands from
>> /usr/local/texlive/bin, but picked up xdvi from /usr/local/bin.  I
>> know it is an ugly hack.
>
> Please read this document:
>
>    http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2011/bin/README.txt
>
> TeX Live FreeBSD binaries are a compromise between portability and
> easiness to resolve problems in cases such as yours.
>
> We did a lot of work over the last 3 years (minimalistic compiler
> options, customised perl binaries/libs...) to reduce the number of
> shared libraries dependencies as much as possible. The result: the
> installer, package manager and ca. 350 non-graphic utilities work for
> all FreeBSD>=7. If you use asymptote, xdvi or xindy (compiled with
> clisp) on FreeBSD>7, simply install misc/compat7.
>
> Best,
> Nikola (maintainer of TeX Live for FreeBSD)

Do you have instructions for how to build customized texlive binaries? 
Then we could create a port that creates amd64-freebsd-tl2011.tar.xz or 
i386-freebsd-tl2011.tar.xz.



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