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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:16:42 +0000
From:      Jamie Griffin <jg@koderize.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
Message-ID:  <20091127011642.GA3881@bsdbox.koderize.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vdgw3lsb.fsf@kobe.laptop>
References:  <20091126211953.GA13605@skarabrae> <4B0F0198.1090807@otenet.gr> <87vdgw3lsb.fsf@kobe.laptop>

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> 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:

<snip> 

> 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.

If you could post back with that, it would be great.


<snip>

> 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.

Thanks for the information


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         Jamie

Website:  http://www.koderize.com
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