[tex-live] TeX Live 2008, i386-freebsd, FreeBSD 6.4 and i386-linux
Manfred Lotz
manfred at dante.de
Tue Mar 17 17:12:29 CET 2009
Karl Berry wrote:
> Maybe for TL09 we should consider building binaries on old [freebsd]
> releases (like 5.x) so all the releases will
> be supported.
>
> In general, building the distributed binaries on the oldest usable
> system is always my recommendation. But ultimately it is up to whoever
> does the work and what systems they have. We're all volunteers here.
>
> For TL'08, Manfred Lotz built the i386-freebsd binaries, and Randy Au
> the amd64-freebsd. (Thanks agan, both of you. :)
>
I only had a FreeBSD 7.0 system when I did the binary build.
--
Manfred
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