[tlbuild] hacking a single package

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Jan 3 00:18:28 CET 2014


On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:35:15PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> Let's say I want to hack on dvipdfm-x.  I've done
> 
> rsync -a --delete --exclude=.svn tug.org::tldevsrc
> 
> and a Build of all the current sources. Now how do I re-build just
> one package after changes to the source? I don't see a relevant
> Makefile.

Assuming you used the "Build" script, then you can do:
$ cd Work/texk/dvipdfm-x/
$ make
$ make install

And the new binary will be installed to "inst/bin/<arch>/" in the top
TeX Live source directory.

Regards,
Khaled


More information about the tlbuild mailing list