How does one use Asymptote on TL

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

The community is lost on what is the office TL line on the issue, see:


https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/718874/freeglut-necessary-for-asymptote

PN

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 4:15 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Let me be clear that I DO understand how to fix it.
>
> One has to get the library, install it, and place a link where it is
> expecting it,
> in my case "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" to the place of installation. Most
> people
> do not need to get it, because copies of it are in directories under
> gnome, kde, etc ...
>
> What I do NOT understand is why TL installation would not do the right
> thing
> here, which would be to compile against a library in
>
>       /usr/local/texlive/2024/lib/x86_64-linux/
>
> and then build a sym-link from that dir to the best version available.
>
> It builds it against a directory where the library it is not -- it could
> easily build
> it against one that TL has control of.
>
> And if the library cannot be found, a message should be added to the post
> install notes.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> Is that what one has to do? Because it does not work on Debian out of the
>> box either.
>>
>> I looked into the install notes and there is nothing about it either. Is
>> this the only binary
>> that needs post-install prepping?
>>
>> Paulo Ney
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> it works at texlive.net (debian) texlive 2024
>>>
>>> I think I got libglut.so.3  via apt from
>>>
>>> freeglut3/oldoldstable,now 2.8.1-3 amd64 [installed]
>>>
>>>
>>> https://texlive.net/run?%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%5Binline%5D%7Basymptote%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Basy%7D%5Bwidth=%5Cthe%5Clinewidth,inline=true%5D%0Adraw((0,0)--(2,2));%0A%5Cend%7Basy%7D%0A%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 18:33, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Ubuntu I get:
>>>>
>>>> $ which asy
>>>> /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/asy
>>>> $ asy
>>>> asy: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open
>>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> Updating the package with "tlmgr" did not change anything.
>>>>
>>>> I reported this issue some 8 years ago:
>>>>
>>>>     https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-September/039286.html
>>>>
>>>> it was fixed for a little while, and it worked with a -V flag or
>>>> latexmk, but now, not even that works.
>>>>
>>>> Paulo Ney
>>>>
>>>
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