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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-08-29 18:58:31 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-08-29 18:58:31 +0000
commitbfbd87a0b6c0a2f58a463749e7502f780aaec362 (patch)
treee8f4361d68def893f1caac0c11535213dca602c8 /Build/source/README.config
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typos, etc.
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+++ b/Build/source/README.config
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
Configure options for the TeX Live (TL) build system
=====================================================
-The TL 2009 build system contains a collection of program packages, i.e.,
+The TL build system contains a collection of program packages, i.e.,
subdirectories texk/PROG/ (where `PROG' is web2c, afm2pl, bibtex8, etc.) and
-utils/UTIL/ (where `UTIL' is dialog, pdfopen, etc.) as well as library
+utils/UTIL/ (where `UTIL' is biber, xpdfopen, etc.) as well as library
packages, i.e., subdirectories texk/kpathsea/, texk/ptexenc/, and libs/LIB/
(where `LIB' is zlib, libpng, t1lib, etc.) for most of the libraries
required by the program packages. Correspondingly there are plenty of
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ global options and a few important package specific ones or run, e.g.,
'texk/lcdf-typetools/configure --help' to also see lcdf-typetools
specific options not shown at the top level.
-Note, however, that the ./Build script used to make the binaries shipped
-with TeX Live invokes the top-level configure with a few additional options.
-Any defaults discussed below are those for the base configure script;
+The ./Build script used to make the binaries shipped with TeX Live
+invokes the top-level configure with a few additional options. Any
+defaults discussed below are those for the base configure script;
invoking configure via ./Build may yield different results.
Defaults for most options are set at the top-level and then propagated
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Options specified on the command line will never be modified.
1.1. --disable-native-texlive-build
-----------------------------------
-If enabled (by default) build for a TeX Live binary distribution as
+If enabled (as default), build for a TeX Live binary distribution as
shipped by the user groups; this implies '--enable-multiplatform' and
'--enable-cxx-runtime-hack' unless they are explicitly disabled and
enforces '--disable-shared'. This also requires GNU make.
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Live build).
1.6. --disable-largefile
------------------------
-Omit support for large files (>=2GB).
+Omit support for large files (>=2GB). Unfortunately, largefile support
+in the TeX engines remains buggy.
1.7. --without-x
----------------
@@ -120,11 +121,11 @@ use this option, but distro builds should specify this as, e.g.,
2.3.1. --with-editor=CMD
Specify the command CMD to invoke from the `e' option, replacing the default
-`vi +%d '%s'' for Unix or `texworks --position=%d "%s"' for Windows..
+`vi +%d '%s'' for Unix or `texworks --position=%d "%s"' for Windows.
2.3.3. --enable-auto-core
This option causes TeX & MF to produce a core dump when a particular
-filename is encountered.
+hacky filename is encountered.
2.3.4. --disable-dump-share
Make the fmt/base/mem dump files architecture dependent (somewhat faster
@@ -159,14 +160,14 @@ Do not build the WEB programs bibtex ... weave, e.g., if you just
want to rebuild engines.
2.3.12. --disable-omfonts
-Build the Web versions of the omega font utilies (ofm2opl, opl2ofm, ovf2ovp,
+Build the Web versions of the omega font utilities (ofm2opl, opl2ofm, ovf2ovp,
and ovp2ovf) instead of the C version, omfonts. The Web and C versions
-should now be roughly equivalent.
+should be roughly equivalent.
2.4. Configure options for texk/xdvik/
--------------------------------------
2.4.1. --with-gs=PATH
-Hardwire the location of GhostScript (gs).
+Hardwire the location of Ghostscript (gs).
2.4.2. --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=KIT
Use toolkit KIT (motif/xaw/xaw3d/neXtaw) for xdvi, default: Motif if