[tex-live] TeX Live 2008, i386-freebsd, FreeBSD 6.4 and i386-linux

[Conny Andersson]

Hi, Yue Wang

First, thank you for demystifying FreeBSD's version numbering. Second, 
thank you for making my TeX Live life easier on FreeBSD.

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Yue Wang wrote:

> Hi, Conny
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Conny Andersson <unitex at telia.com> wrote:
...

>> xdvi-xaw: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libXaw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>
> This depends on your linux-compatibility module. did you fully install
> the linux xorg library in the ports tree (using the fedora linux
> binaries)? if yes, check the version number, and manually link the
> versions in /usr/compact/linux/usr/lib/.

I do not think so, and will check it out when running that system on which 
TeX Live i386-linux is installed. But, your reminder on a build from source 
later in this email might solve my problems alltogether ...

>> So, as a conclusion it is not easy to run TeX Live 2008 on FreeBSD 6.4 which
>> is newer then the FreeBSD 7.0 on which TeX Live 2008 i386-freebsd was built.
>>
>
> Well. Thanks for reporting this. Maybe for TL09 we should consider
> building binaries on old releases (like 5.x) so all the releases will
> be supported. (But newer versions like 6 and 7 should install extra
> compatibility packages from ports tree).

That was done with 'compatibility packages from ports tree' for 4.x and 5.x
on the actual 6.4 system.

> But Conny, can you try to build the TeXLive source tree on your
> FreeBSD 6.4, and copy all the binaries to your bin/freebsd-i386
> directory. This should be work for you (and no libmap.conf is needed).
> Only by this way all the libraries will be correctly linked. And this
> should be the best way to solve your problem.

Yes! That is nice, I like compiling from source, and usually I make a build 
from ports instead of installing packages when installing software. So, 
right now I discovered something that had totally slipped my mind - sorry: 
I have the texlive-20080816-source.tar.lzma in /dvd/texlive/source/. The 
/dvd is my Tug-membership benefit - the 'TeX Collection DVD, Sept. 2008'. 
Thank you.

> The source code tarball could be found on
> http://www.ctan.org/get/systems/texlive/Source/texlive-20080816-source.tar.lzma
>
>
> Before building the sources, read the README carefully
> ( for example, you should always set the TL_MAKE to gmake, and set the
> fontconfig library path to /usr/local)

Note taken, thank you!

> It is also very strange that for ConTeXt minimals distribution, all
> the bsd binaries are compiled on 8-CURRENT by Diego and me, but no 6.x
> and 7.x users complains...

? Well, I don't know why ...

> BTW, for multi-core processors, 7.0 or 7.1 will benefit from the ULE
> scheduler. maybe upgrading to newer versions is a good idea....
>
> Yue Wang

I will be doing some other things for some time, but I will try to make a 
build from source when being in front of my computer again. For now, I did 
a little test: unitex at alice [/dvd/texlive/source] > lzma -tv \ 
texlive-20080816-source.tar.lzma
texlive-20080816-source.tar.lzma:  decoded successfully

Thanks Yue Wang - best wishes,

Conny

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