summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Build/source/README.1prerequisites
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2020-03-13 17:12:03 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2020-03-13 17:12:03 +0000
commit174147dcdbfb24f62966d39bb4f196d9b38895e4 (patch)
tree1b56a1618b925674f91109cb9ec61a258ada01d9 /Build/source/README.1prerequisites
parente08a47414604e2e6b77c46f390631522729455e3 (diff)
2020 tlbuild update
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@54277 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Build/source/README.1prerequisites')
-rw-r--r--Build/source/README.1prerequisites39
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/README.1prerequisites b/Build/source/README.1prerequisites
index 6d7ea74d589..443a4826ecc 100644
--- a/Build/source/README.1prerequisites
+++ b/Build/source/README.1prerequisites
@@ -6,36 +6,37 @@
***************
Overall, building the TeX Live programs, when using all libraries from
-the TL source tree, requires only C and C++ compilers and GNU 'make'.
-(If 'make' from your 'PATH' is not GNU make, you can set 'MAKE' in the
-environment to whatever is necessary.)
+the TL source tree, requires C and C++11 compilers and GNU 'make'. If
+'make' from your 'PATH' is not GNU make, you can set the 'MAKE'
+environment variable to whatever is necessary.
GNU 'make' is required only because of some third-party libraries,
notably FreeType; all the TL-maintained directories (and
-Automake/Autoconf output in general) should work with any reasonable
-'make'.
+Automake/Autoconf output in general) work with any reasonable 'make'.
- However, a few programs in the tree have additional requirements:
+ A C++11 compiler is similarly required because of the third-party
+libraries ICU and Poppler; the program 'dvisvgm' also requires C++11.
+It is possible to build everything else with older compilers, but you
+have to remove the C++11-dependent sources. *Note Build one package::.
-'dvisvgm'
- requires a C++11 compiler, such as gcc 4.8.1 (or later) or clang
- 3.3 (or later).
+ A few programs in the tree have additional requirements:
'web2c'
requires 'perl' for some tests run by 'make check'.
'xdvik'
'xpdfopen'
- require X11 headers and libraries, often in "development" packages
- that are not installed by default.
+ require X11 headers and libraries, typically in "development"
+ packages that are not installed by default.
'xetex'
requires 'fontconfig' (again both headers and library), or, for
MacOSX only, the 'ApplicationServices' and 'Cocoa' frameworks.
'xindy'
- requires GNU 'clisp' and in addition 'perl', 'latex', and
- 'pdflatex' to build the rules and/or documentation.
+ requires GNU 'clisp', 'libsigsegv', and 'libiconv'; additionally,
+ to build the rules and/or documentation: 'perl', 'latex',
+ 'pdflatex'.
Lacking the required tools, building these programs must avoided, e.g.,
'configure --without-x --disable-xetex --disable-xindy'
@@ -44,14 +45,17 @@ Lacking the required tools, building these programs must avoided, e.g.,
expect:
* Modification of any '.y' or '.l' source files requires 'bison' or
- 'flex' to updatete the corresponding C sources.
+ 'flex' to update the corresponding C sources.
* Modification of the sources for '.info' files requires 'makeinfo'.
* Modification of any part of the build system (M4 macros,
'configure.ac', 'Makefile.am', or their fragments) requires GNU M4,
GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake, and GNU Libtool to update the generated
- files. *Note Build system tools::.
+ files. Furthermore, to reliably reproduce the build files, the
+ original GNU releases of these tools must be used, not any distro
+ packaging of them. *Note Build system tools::, for more
+ discussion.
If you haven't modified any source files, and infrastructure tools
such as 'autoconf' or 'makeinfo' are still being run, check your
@@ -59,8 +63,3 @@ timestamps--notably, 'use-commit-times' must be set to 'yes' in your
Subversion configuration (*note Build system tools::). Barring buggy
commits, no infrastructure tools are needed to do a normal build.
- As an example, on Debian systems the necessary build dependencies can
-be installed via:
-
- apt-get install libfontconfig-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxaw7-dev
-