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? Message-ID: <4FC11B66.9000302@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <b532d4fdda7e4dfb99d4b4266fe7fe3c@anthesphoria.net> References: <CACsYpVOz1tnWO5e4S_OOSDGa7Q8OkztJ6HagHy58FY0J5RNCqQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120526090137.001691dc@scorpio> <ac8cb42c8cfedc59d2c7d6ccde74c476@anthesphoria.net> <4FC0F8EA.1090005@missouri.edu> <b532d4fdda7e4dfb99d4b4266fe7fe3c@anthesphoria.net>
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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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