$Id$ Public domain. Originally written 2005 by Karl Berry. For a high-level overview of building TeX Live, see http://tug.org/texlive/build.html. In brief: - To configure and make the source tree, run ./Build. This builds in subdirectory Work/, and installs into subdirectory inst/. - To build (mostly) without optimization, run ./Build --debug. - If the make fails and you want to rebuild without starting from scratch: cd Work/whatever/subdir && make Email tlbuild@tug.org if problems. (Nearly everything the Build script does can be overridden via environment variables; just take a look to see the names.) Many more details about the TL build system, such as configuring to work on a single program, adding new programs or libraries, documentation about the many pieces of the system, etc., are in the doc/tlbuild* document and the sibling README* files here (which are generated from that document). Build information for some of the platforms. x86_64-linux: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), Feb 2009. amd64-netbsd: gcc version 4.5.3 (NetBSD nb2 20110806) NetBSD/amd64 6.1.3 TL_MAKE=gmake LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R7/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R7/lib' ./Build i386-freebsd, amd64-freebsd: --disable-dvisvgm; upmendex for i386 built with -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0. i386-linux: Debian 7. i386-openbsd, amd64-openbsd: e.g., see CONFIGURE_ARGS in the Makefile in http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/texlive/base/ i386-solaris, x86_64-solaris: Solaris 10. See doc/README.solaris. i386-cygwin, x86_64-cygwin: gcc-4.8.2, cygwin-1.7.29. ./Build (with --enable-xindy for i386). powerpc-linux (Debian Squeeze): Linux homer 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 02:01:42 UTC 2011 ppc64 Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (only the kernel is 64bit, the entire userland is 32bit) sparc-solaris: Solaris 10, gcc. See doc/README.solaris. x86_64-darwin: See Master/source/mactexdoc.tar.xz. x86_64-darwinlegacy, i386-darwin, powerpc-darwin: https://github.com/TeXLive-M/texlive-buildbot http://build.contextgarden.net/waterfall?tag=c/texlive (These links have info on all platforms built by Mojca.) 32-bit binaries built on 10.6/x86_64 with backward compatibility to 10.5. ppc binaries only work on <= 10.5, so 10.5/ppc will be the only OS for them. i386 binaries only work on <= 10.6. While they theoretically work "everywhere", they would only be used on 10.5 and 10.6/i386. x86_64 binaries only work on >= 10.6 (and should work on any >= 10.6 machine) but will only be used for < 10.10 since x86_64-darwin covers newer. PPC binaries made with gcc-4.2 and Intel binaries with clang-3.7.