Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Breitenlohner 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., subdirectories texk/PROG/ (where `PROG' is web2c, afm2pl, bibtex8, etc.) and utils/UTIL/ (where `UTIL' is dialog, pdfopen, etc.) as well as library packages, i.e., subdirectories texk/kpathsea/ 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 configure options, most of which are described below. See 'configure --help' (at the top-level) for an exhaustive list of all 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; thus, invoking configure via ./Build yields different results. Options specified on the command line will never be modified. 1. Global configure options =========================== 1.1. --disable-native-texlive-build ----------------------------------- If enabled (by 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'. If building TL for a GNU/Linux or other distribution, this would be disabled and system versions of most libraries would be used (see below). A related option '--enable-texlive-build' is automatically passed to all subdirectories (and can not be disabled). Programs that could also be built independent from the TL tree (such as utils/xindy/ or texk/dvipng/) use this option, e.g., to choose TL specific installation directories. 1.2. --enable-multiplatform --------------------------- If enabled, install executables and libraries in platform dependent subdirectories of EPREFIX/bin and EPREFIX/lib (unless '--bindir=DIR' or '--libdir=DIR' is specified), where EPREFIX is the exec-prefix. This option automatically propagates the values for bindir and libdir to all subdirectories to be configured, and thus need not be used explicitly in any program or library package. 1.3. --enable-cxx-runtime-hack ------------------------------ If enabled and when using g++, try to statically link with libstc++, somewhat improving portability. 1.4. --enable-libtool-hack -------------------------- If enabled prevents libtool from linking explicitly with dependency_libs. At present this is enabled by default for all systems. 1.5. --enable-shared --------------------- Build a shared Kpathsea library (not allowed for a TeX Live native build). 1.6. --disable-largefile ------------------------ Omit support for large files (>=2GB). 1.7. --without-x ---------------- Do not use the X Window System. 1.8. --enable-compiler-warnings=[no|min|yes|max|all] ---------------------------------------------------- Enable various degrees of compiler warnings for C and C++. The default is 'yes' in maintainer-mode and 'min' otherwise. This options defines additional CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, OBJCFLAGS, and OBJCXXFLAGS but these flags are not yet used by all library and program packages. Using these compiler warnings should help to resolve portability problems. At the moment these warning flags are only defined for the GNU compilers but flags for other compilers could be added when needed. 1.8. --disable-missing ---------------------- Immediately terminate the build process if a requested program or feature must be disabled, e.g., due to missing libraries. 2. Configure options for program packages ========================================= 2.1. --disable-PROG and --disable-UTIL -------------------------------------- Do not build and install the program(s) of the package `PROG' or `UTIL'. 2.2. --disable-all-pkgs ----------------------- Do not build any program packages, except those explicitly enabled. Without this option, all packages are built except those explicitly disabled and except for utils/xindy/ (which is disabled by default due to its requirement for clisp et al.). 2.3. Configure options for texk/web2c/ -------------------------------------- 2.3.1. --with-tex-banner=STR Specify the version string STR appended to banner lines, replacing the default `Web2C YYYY'; the string STR must contain the current Web2C version, that is, the YYYY. The Build script for a TL native build currently specifies `--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009"', whereas a distro build should alter this to, e.g., `--with-tex-banner="TeX Live 2009/Debian"'. 2.3.1. --with-editor=CMD Specify the command CMD to invoke from the `e' option, replacing the default `vi +%d %s'. 2.3.3. --enable-auto-core This option causes TeX & MF to produce a core dump when a particular filename is encountered. 2.3.4. --disable-dump-share Make the fmt/base/mem dump files architecture dependent (somewhat faster on little-endian architectures). 2.3.5. --disable-ipc If enabled (by default) allow TeX's '--ipc' option. 2.3.6. --disable-tex, --enable-etex, --disable-aleph, --disable-pdftex, --disable-luatex, --disable-xetex, --disable-mf, --disable-mp Do or do not build the various TeX, METAFONT, and MetaPost engines. 2.3.7. --with-mf-x-toolkit Use the X toolkit (libXt) for METAFONT (default is yes). 2.3.8. --enable-*win Include various types of other window support for METAFONT. 2.3.9. --disable-mf-nowin Do not build a separate non-graphically-capable METAFONT. 2.3.10. --disable-web-progs Do not build the WEB programs bibtex ... weave, e.g., if you just want to rebuild engines. 2.3.11. --disable-omfonts Build the Web versions of the omega font utilies (ofm2opl, opl2ofm, ovf2ovp, and ovp2ovf) instead of the C version, omfonts. The Web versions are needed in Japanese environments; the C versions fix some (unknown) bugs. We hope the situation will be resolved. 2.4. Configure options for texk/xdvik/ -------------------------------------- 2.4.1. --with-gs=PATH 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 available, else Xaw. 2.5. Configure options for texk/dvisvgm/ ---------------------------------------- 2.5.1. --with-system-libgs Build dvisvgm with installed gs headers and library (not allowed for a TeX Live native build). The default is to load the gs library at runtime, or disable support for PostScript specials. 2.5.2. --with-libgs-includes=DIR, --with-libgs-libdir=DIR Non standard search locations for libgs. 3. Configure options for libraries ================================== 3.1. --with-system-LIB ---------------------- Use an installed (system) version of the library `LIB'; this option exists for most but not all libraries (not allowed for a TeX Live native build). For many libraries there are in addition '--with-LIB-includes=DIR' and '--with-LIB-libdir=DIR' to indicate that the library is installed in an unusual location. The top-level configure script performs a consistency check for all required system libraries and bails out early if one these tests fails. 3.2. Configure options for libfontconfig ---------------------------------------- Building XeTeX and xdvipdfmx on non-Mac systems requires libfontconfig. 3.2.1. --with-fontconfig-includes=DIR, --with-fontconfig-libdir=DIR If one or both of these options are given, the flags are derived from them. Otherwise, the flags are determined via pkg-config (if present). 3.3. Configure options for system libfreetype --------------------------------------------- The flags for a system freetype library are determined via freetype-config. 3.4. Configure options for libpoppler ------------------------------------- 3.4.1. --with-system-xpdf Use libpoppler instead of xpdf (and pkg-config to obtain the required flags). 3.5. Configure options for the icu libraries -------------------------------------------- 3.5.1. --with-system-icu Use installed icu headers and libraries for bibtexu (and icu-config to obtain the required flags). However, XeTeX, still requires the (modified) icu headers and libraries from the TL tree. 4. Interesting and/or important VAR=value configure arguments ============================================================= Used instead of searching for programs in PATH. 4.1. FT2_CONFIG=/path/to/freetype-config ---------------------------------------- For system freetype2 library. 4.2. ICU_CONFIG=/path/to/icu-config ---------------------------------------- For system icu libraries. 4.3. PKG_CONFIG=/path/to/pkg-config ----------------------------------- For fontconfig and system xpdf (poppler) libraries. 4.4. CLISP=/path/to/clisp ------------------------- For xindy. 4.5. PERL=/path/to/perl, LATEX=/path/to/latex, PDFLATEX=/path/to/pdflatex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To build xindy docs. 4.6. KPSEWHICH=/path/to/kpsewhich --------------------------------- For `make check'. Happy building. Please use the tlbuild list for questions or discussion: http://lists.tug.org/tlbuild.