[tlbuild] FreeType2 Issue on OpenBSD

[Edd Barrett]

Hi Jonathan,

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> You're not doing this via actual Build script from TL, are you? Please try
> that and see what happens.... and in case of failure, let us see the
> build.log file that it'll create (in the Work tree, IIRC).

I was completely unaware of this script.

The first thing i notice about it is that lots of errors like this scroll up:
---8<---
"config.mk", line 29: Need an operator
"config.mk", line 36: Could not find /builds/freetype.mk
"config.mk", line 52: Need an operator
"config.mk", line 54: Need an operator
"config.mk", line 57: Could not find /builds/unix/install.mk
"config.mk", line 59: Need an operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 143: Need an operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 158: Could not find /builds/modules.mk
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 167: Missing dependency operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 176: Need an operator
---8<---

It's assuming make==gmake. On OpenBSD it is not.

--- /tmp/source/Build   Wed May  7 22:32:49 2008
+++ /tl/source/Build    Tue May 13 14:47:14 2008
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 if test "x$1" = x--no-clean; then
   shift
 else
-  test -f Makefile && make clean
+  test -f Makefile && $TL_MAKE clean
   rm -rf $TL_WORKDIR $TL_INSTALL_DEST
 fi

After patching:

---8<---
export TL_MAKE=gmake && ./Build --with-fontconfig=/usr/X11R6
*snip*
   19m31.56s real    14m4.99s user     2m12.25s system

./Build:      274  binaries in /tl/source/inst/bin.
---8<---

Great! It builds fine, so as far as test builds go its fine on OpenBSD.

However you can break the ./Build script by changing --prefix and
setting --disable-multiplatform.

I am trying to thing how this is going to fit into porting. I would
prefer to use ./configure && make && make install method, as it would
integrate far better with our ports system. This method is still
supported? If so I need to look at what magic ./Build is performing to
make the build complete.

I'm going to try dumping a texmf in the tl build and compiling some
docs, probably need to try xindy too.

Does anyone have any comments on any of my above thoughts?

Thanks

-- 

Best Regards

Edd

http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett