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Copyright (C) 2011 Peter Breitenlohner <tex-live@tug.org>
You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
Building TeX Live (TL) to a distro
==================================
Although they use the same code base, building for a TL binary distribution
as shipped by the user groups may be quite different from a `distro' build
for, e.g., some kind of Linux distribution, a *Bsd or Mac OS X port, or
similar.
While a TL binary distribution uses shared libraries (libc, libm, X11
libraries, and libfontconfig) only when absolutely necessary, a distro might
use as many shared libraries as possible, including the TL specific
libkpathsea and libptexenc.
In addition the installation paths will, in general, be quite different.
1. Configuring for a distro
===========================
Here we give some hints how to configure TL for a distro (see README.config
for a fairly complete description of all configure options.
1.1. General setup
------------------
You must use
--disable-native-texlive-build
otherwise many options described below are rejected, and should use, e.g.,
--with-banner-add=/SomeDistro
to identify your distro.
You may specify
--enable-shared
to build the TL specific kpathsea and ptexenc libraries as shared libraries
and may add
--disable-shared
if you don't want them as static libraries.
You should use
--with-system-LIB
(for LIB=zlib, libpng, zziplib, etc.) to use installed libraries (including
kpathsea and ptexenc for the TL specific libraries, e.g., when rebuilding
individual programs) and you may have to add
--with-LIB-includes=DIR
and/or
--with-LIB-libdir=DIR
to locate the installed headers and libraries.
1.2. Installation paths
-----------------------
If you want your principal TEXMF trees to be, e.g.,
/usr/share/texmf{,-dist}
you must specify
--prefix=/usr/share
and you probably need to modify texmf.cnf to reflect your paths. The
compile-time paths defined in paths.h will be computed accordingly.
Specify
--bindir=/usr/bin
to install binaries under /usr/bin. This will cause the installation of
correct symlinks to scripts under ${prefix}/texmf or ${prefix}/texmf-dist.
To install the TL kpathsea and ptexenc libraries under /usr/lib specify
--libdir=/usr/lib
but on 64bit bi-arch systems and depending on your distro this might also be
--libdir=/usr/lib64
or similar. The correct choice is important in particular when using shared
versions of the TL specific libraries.
Alternatively you could specify
--exec-prefix=/usr
for binaries under /usr/bin and libraries under /usr/lib.
You probably should specify
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
to have info and man pages installed under /usr/share/{info,man}, and
--includedir=/usr/include
to have headers under /usr/include/{kpathsea,ptexenc}.
For a `staged install' (see Automake manual 12.4), e.g.,
mkdir /tmp/staging && make DESTDIR=/tmp/staging install-strip
all installation paths are prefixed by the value of DESTDIR.
2. XXXXXXXX
===========
To be filled in.
Happy building. Please use the tldistro list for questions or
discussion: http://lists.tug.org/tldistro.
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