[tlbuild] first build for TeX Live 2008

[Vladimir Volovich]

"VV" == Vladimir Volovich writes:

 JK> And does the resulting binary still work, including the ability to
 JK> locate an OpenType font from ~/.fonts or /etc/fonts or something
 JK> (wherever fontconfig is set up to manage)?

 VV> i didn't check yet, that will require pulling in the texmf tree? or
 VV> can i just take plain.tex and generate a format and then run some
 VV> direct \font\xxx=... to see if it works?

i checked using -ini option:

./xetex -ini \\relax
\font\xxx = "Times New Roman"
\xxx
test
\end

and it generated the correct PDF.

Best,
v.