circular dependency when building LaTeX?

[Joseph Wright]

On 23/06/2021 16:46, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Hi Joseph
> 
> Thank you for your prompt reply. You wrote:
> 
> You can take a look at all of this if wish: it's all part of the setup in
>> the GitHub repos for LaTeX (we use Travis-CI rather than GitHub Actions,
>> but the idea is much the same).
>>
> 
> Thank you for the invitation. Please would you supply at least one URL
> telling me (and the original poster) where this setup can be found. What
> we're interested in, of course, is how CI builds from LaTeX sources the
> LaTeX inputs used by texlive. (In other words, I think, the docstrip
> transformation from .dtx to .sty etc.)

The LaTeX2e repo is at https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/.

Everything there is done by scripting using l3build, so there is no 
simple line saying "pdftex l3.ins" or similar.

Joseph