texlive-20140525-source

Introduction to TeX Live from source

Most of TeX Live can be built from source without a pre-existing installation, but xindy (for indexing) needs working versions of latex and pdflatex when configure is run, and the testsuite and install for asy (for vector graphics) will fail if TeX has not already been installed. Additionally, biber is not provided within the texlive source.

All of those packages are dealt with on their own pages and can be built after installing this package and proceeding to Setting the PATH for TeX Live.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

Required Additional Download

Much of the texlive environment (including scripts, documentation, fonts and various other files) is not part of the source tarball. You must download it separately. This will give you all of the additional files which are provided by a full install of the binary version, there is no realistic way to restrict which parts get installed.

Because of the size of this package, it is unlikely to be mirrored by BLFS mirrors. In case of difficulty, go to http://www.ctan.org/mirrors/ to find a more-accessible mirror.

TeX Live from source Dependencies

Recommended

ghostscript-9.15 (for dvisvgm - used by asymptote which provides a mathematical coordinate-based framework for technical drawing), X Window System

The source ships with its own versions of many libraries, and will use them unless it is forced to use the system versions. The following are recommended so that the system version will be used: Fontconfig-2.11.1, FreeType-2.5.5, GC-7.4.2, Graphite2-1.2.4, Harfbuzz-0.9.38 (linked to graphite2), ICU-54.1, libpaper-1.1.24+nmu4 (used by at least context and xelatex), libpng-1.6.16, Poppler-0.31.0

Optional

The source ships with its own versions of several libraries which are either not under active development, or only used for limited functionality. If you install these, as with some other optional dependencies in this book you will need to tell configure to use the system versions. GD, t1lib, ZZIPlib, TECkit

Runtime dependencies

Python-2.7.9 is used by many scripts. Ruby-2.2.0 is used by some scripts, mostly within mtx_context which is part of conTeXt, but also for one or two others, such as match_parens, which are generally useful.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/texlive

TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
mkdir texlive-build &&
cd texlive-build    &&

../configure                                        \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/                      \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive//bin/$TEXARCH         \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/                 \
    --includedir=/usr/include                       \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive//texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --libdir=/usr/lib                               \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive//texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                  \
    --disable-static --enable-shared                \
    --with-system-cairo                             \
    --with-system-fontconfig                        \
    --with-system-freetype2                         \
    --with-system-graphite2                         \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                          \
    --with-system-icu                               \
    --with-system-libgs                             \
    --with-system-libpaper                          \
    --with-system-libpng                            \
    --with-system-pixman                            \
    --with-system-poppler                           \
    --with-system-xpdf                              \
    --with-system-zlib                              \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &&
unset TEXARCH &&

make

make install &&
make texlinks

mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/ &&
tar -xf ../../texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/ --strip-components=1