[luatex] [tex-live] lltxplatform integration

[Zdenek Wagner]

If luatex (or whatever) is changed to depend on .so files, it will not
be installable in compiled form. Instead it will be necesary to
install the source codes, each users will have to have autodonf,
automake, compiler, development headers and tlmgr will have to compile
them. You can rely on dynamic linkig only if you compile for a
particular distro.
Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz


2015-06-05 12:24 GMT+02:00 Élie Roux <elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu>:
>> hm, I don't see any so in my texlive 2015 pretest and in trunk/Master.
>> The only dso I see are dll and none is problematic (almost all 32bit apart
>> ./texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/win64/mtxrun.dll:            PE32+
>> executable (DLL) (console) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for MS
>> Windows)
>
> >From what I understand, Windows is less problematic than Linux... But
> what will happen when luatex will be split in one kernel + several .so
> files? Will TL change it and compile everything statically under Linux?
> If so, why not also statically compiling other things such as
> lualatex-platform and harfbuzz?
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Elie