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diff --git a/Build/source/doc/tlbuild.texi b/Build/source/doc/tlbuild.texi index 74f248f5f33..ea5c854460e 100644 --- a/Build/source/doc/tlbuild.texi +++ b/Build/source/doc/tlbuild.texi @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ \input texinfo @setfilename tlbuild.info -@set version 2015 -@set month-year May 2015 +@set version 2016 +@set month-year February 2016 @set mytitle Building @TeX{} Live (@value{version}) @settitle @value{mytitle} @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ @copying This file documents the @TL{} build system and more. +Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Karl Berry.@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014, 2015 Karl Berry & Peter Breitenlohner. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this @@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ approved by the @TeX{} Users Group. @dircategory TeX @direntry -* TL-build: (tlbuild). TeX Live configuration and development. +* TLbuild: (tlbuild). TeX Live configuration and development. @end direntry @titlepage @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ approved by the @TeX{} Users Group. @subtitle @value{month-year} @author Peter Breitenlohner @author Karl Berry -@author @url{http://tug.org/tex-live} +@author @url{http://tug.org/texlive} @page @vskip 0pt plus 1filll @@ -98,8 +99,16 @@ This manual (dated @value{month-year}) corresponds to the @TL{} @value{version} release. This manual is aimed at system installers and programmers, and focuses -on how to configure, build, and develop the @TL{} (TL) sources. The -sources can be acquired in a number of ways; see +on how to configure, build, and develop the @TL{} (TL) sources. It is +also available as plain text files in the source tree: +@file{source/README.*}. + +The @file{source/README} file in the TL source tree provides the +maximally-terse information for doing a build, and portability +information for different systems, along with +@file{source/doc/README.solaris}. + +For information on acquiring the TL sources, see @url{http://tug.org/texlive/svn}. This manual does not duplicate the (primarily user-level) information @@ -388,6 +397,7 @@ This is useful for checking consistency of the source tree and Makefiles, but the result is not a complete or even usable @TeX{} system, since all the support files are lacking; @pxref{Installing}. + @node Build one package @section Build one package @@ -2203,17 +2213,11 @@ into a subdirectory that is configured natively as is done for @file{texk/web2c/web2c}, @file{texk/dvipsk/squeeze}, and @file{texk/xdvik/squeeze}. The module @file{libs/freetype2} uses the value of @code{CC_BUILD}, @file{@var{build}-gcc}, @file{gcc}, or -@file{cc} as compiler for the auxiliary program. - -@pindex txt2zlib -Building Lua@TeX{} (or LuaJIT@TeX{}) uses the auxiliary program -@file{txt2zlib} to create @file{pdflua.c} and, if necessary, update the -distributed version of that file. In a cross compilation we simply use that -distributed file. +@file{cc} as the compiler for the auxiliary program. @cindex ICU cross compiling The situation for installable programs needed by the build process is -somewhat different. A quite expensive possibility, chosen for the ICU +somewhat different. A rather expensive possibility, chosen for the ICU libraries in module @file{libs/icu}, is to first compile natively for the build system and in a second step to use these (uninstalled) programs during the cross compilation. |