Xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML) that process some kind of text and generate indexing information.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.10 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://tug.ctan.org/support/xindy/base/xindy-2.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 221acfeeb0f6f8388f89a59c56491041
Download size: 506 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xindy
Install xindy by running the following commands:
export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" make-rules/inputenc/Makefile.in &&
patch -Np1 -i ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/2016              \
            --bindir=/opt/texlive/2016/bin/$TEXARCH \
            --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2016         \
            --includedir=/usr/include               \
            --libdir=/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist   \
            --mandir=/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/man &&
make LC_ALL=POSIX
        This package does not have a testsuite.
          Now, as the root user:
        
make install
          sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/"
          ...: The build sorts files in latin{1..3} encodings to
          create latin.xdy, and unicode versions of these to create utf8.xdy
          after using grep -v
          '^;' to remove blank lines. With grep-2.23 any data not in the expected
          encoding is treated as binary, resulting in a useless file. This
          command uses an alternative way of removing blank lines.
        
          patch -Np1 -i
          ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-1.patch: Xindy is now maintained at CTAN. This patch
          updates the source to match what is used for the 2016 texlive
          binary version ( but ignoring changes which were only made to allow
          for spaces in pathnames).
        
          --prefix=, --bindir=, --datarootdir=,
          --infodir=, --mandir= ... : these switches ensure that
          the files installed from source will overwrite any corresponding
          files previously installed by install-tl-unx so that the alternative methods
          of installing texlive are
          consistent..
        
          --includedir=/usr/include:
          This parameter ensures that the kpathsea headers from texlive-20160523b will be found.
        
          make LC_ALL=POSIX: with the
          current version of coreutils it is
          essential to build xindy in the
          POSIX (or C) locale because in a UTF-8 locale the file latin.xdy will contain only a heading and then a
          line 'Binary file (standard input)
          matches' instead of the many lines of lisp merge-rule commands it ought to contain.
        
Last updated on 2016-08-31 10:57:05 -0700