texlive-20210325-source

Introduction to TeX Live from source

Most of TeX Live can be built from source without a pre-existing installation, but xindy (for indexing) needs working versions of latex and pdflatex when configure is run, and the testsuite and install for asy (for vector graphics) will fail if TeX has not already been installed. Additionally, biber is not provided within the texlive source and the version of dvisvgm in the texlive tree cannot be built if shared system libraries are used.

All of those packages are dealt with on their own pages and can be built after installing this package. If you have not already done so, you should start at Setting the PATH for TeX Live so that the final commands to initialise the new installation will be found.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

Required Additional Downloads

Much of the texlive environment (including scripts, documentation, fonts, and various other files) is not part of the source tarball. You must download it separately. This will give you all of the additional files which are provided by a full install of the binary version, there is no realistic way to restrict which parts get installed.

Because of the size of this package, it is unlikely to be mirrored by BLFS mirrors. In case of difficulty, go to http://www.ctan.org/mirrors/ to find a more-accessible mirror.

From the 2019 year, the tlpdb database of the packages within texlive is no-longer installed with the source. But texdoc needs a cache file derived from this (and will create the cache on its first run).

TeX Live from source Dependencies

Recommended

ghostscript-9.54.0 including libgs.so, X Window System

The source ships with its own versions of many libraries, and will use them unless it is forced to use the system versions. The following are recommended so that the system version will be used: Fontconfig-2.13.1, FreeType-2.11.0, GC-8.0.4, Graphite2-1.3.14, HarfBuzz-2.9.0 (built with graphite2 enabled), ICU-69.1, libpaper-1.1.24+nmu5 (used by at least context and xelatex), and libpng-1.6.37

Furthermore, the instructions below assume you are using the layout described in Setting the PATH for TeX Live.

Optional

The source ships with its own versions of several libraries which are either not under active development, or only used for limited functionality. If you install these, as with some other optional dependencies in this book you will need to tell configure to use the system versions. GD, t1lib, ZZIPlib, TECkit

Runtime dependencies

Python-2.7.18 is used by many scripts - most are unmaintained. Many invoke /usr/bin/env python, a couple invoke /usr/bin/python. It is not generally known if these will work with a symlink to python3 (as used in some distros) and two from pythontex invoke python2. Ruby-3.0.2 is used by some scripts, mostly within mtx_context which is part of conTeXt, but also for one or two others, such as match_parens, which are generally useful. The perl module Tk, which needs to be run from an X11 session to run the tests and requires Tk-8.6.11.1, is used by one of the scripts for ptex (Japanese vertical writing), can be used by a conTeXt texfind script, and is needed for texdoctk (a GUI interface for finding documentation files and opening them with the appropriate viewer).

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/texlive

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF
# Begin texlive 2021 addition

/opt/texlive/2021/lib

# End texlive 2021 addition
EOF

export TEXARCH=$(uname -m |
 sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/')                 &&
patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-20210325-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&

mkdir texlive-build &&
cd texlive-build    &&

../configure                                        \
    --prefix=/opt/texlive/2021                      \
    --bindir=/opt/texlive/2021/bin/$TEXARCH         \
    --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2021                 \
    --includedir=/opt/texlive/2021/include          \
    --infodir=/opt/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/info \
    --libdir=/opt/texlive/2021/lib                  \
    --mandir=/opt/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/man   \
    --disable-native-texlive-build                  \
    --disable-static --enable-shared                \
    --disable-dvisvgm                               \
    --with-system-cairo                             \
    --with-system-fontconfig                        \
    --with-system-freetype2                         \
    --with-system-gmp                               \
    --with-system-graphite2                         \
    --with-system-harfbuzz                          \
    --with-system-icu                               \
    --with-system-libgs                             \
    --with-system-libpaper                          \
    --with-system-libpng                            \
    --with-system-mpfr                              \
    --with-system-pixman                            \
    --with-system-zlib                              \
    --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &&

make

make install-strip &&
/sbin/ldconfig &&
make texlinks &&
mkdir -pv /opt/texlive/2021/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
install -v -m644 ../texk/tests/TeXLive/* /opt/texlive/2021/tlpkg/TeXLive/ &&
tar -xf ../../texlive-20210325-tlpdb-full.tar.gz -C /opt/texlive/2021/tlpkg

tar -xf ../../texlive-20210325-texmf.tar.xz -C /opt/texlive/2021 --strip-components=1

for F in /opt/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/latex-make/*.py ; do
  sed -i 's%/usr/bin/env python%/usr/bin/python3%' $F
done

mktexlsr &&
fmtutil-sys --all &&
mtxrun --generate