<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m trying to compile pdftex from scratch but a lot of documentation seems to be out of date. The manual linked to on the home page (<a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf" class="">https://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf</a>) indicates that there should a “build-pdftex.sh” script somewhere, but there’s no such file in the TexLive 2018 sources (downloaded from <a href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/texlive-20180414-source.tar.xz" class="">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/texlive-20180414-source.tar.xz</a>). Some googling turned up some sources on CTAN, but it sounds like that’s deprecated now?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">I tried following the “Build one package" instructions (<a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html#Build-one-package" class="">https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html#Build-one-package</a>) using the package “pdftex” instead of "<span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">dvipdfm-x” in the example. These instructions also reference build-pdftex.sh… oh well. Anyways I was able to get the rest of the instructions to run just fine but unfortunately I can’t actually find the pdftex package or executable anywhere afterwards.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">What should I be doing here to actually build pdftex?</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Samuel</div></body></html>