From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 23:32:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C9E106566C for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:32:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939E28FC08 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:32:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693C7EB480C; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:07 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F35452BC; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:07 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ojV5cbgb03-g; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:07 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-206-23.home.otenet.gr [94.64.206.23]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD9A452B6; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:06 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nAQNW5Oj004478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAQNW5sP004475; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Manolis Kiagias References: <20091126211953.GA13605@skarabrae> <4B0F0198.1090807@otenet.gr> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4B0F0198.1090807@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200") Message-ID: <87vdgw3lsb.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: acheron , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:32:09 -0000 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias 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 . I used rsync to grab a snapshot of the sources, as described in . Then I followed the instructions at to build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X.