[tlbuild] first build for TeX Live 2008

[Manfred Lotz]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I think we are close enough that it would be useful to try building some
> binaries for TeX Live 2008 now.
> 
> I wrote down some procedures at http://tug.org/texlive/build.html,
> please read and let me know if questions or problems.  It's essentially
> the same as last year.
> 
> There will definitely be more changes coming (pdftex doesn't have the
> pool file integrated yet, for instance), so I don't recommend committing
> new binaries right away -- I haven't for i386-linux.  Mostly we want to
> fix the inevitable compilation problems that crop up right away.
> 
> As I wrote on build.html, besides the main build, there is also a
> one-time need to build lzma-utils (those binaries shouldn't be changing,
> so we can check them in).  And there are special considerations about
> enabling xindy, once you have the main build working.  Of course we'd
> like to include xindy on as many platforms as possible.
> 
> I created this mailing list because I know some of you do not want to be
> on the (high-traffic) main tex-live list.  So let's just keep this list
> focused on the basic compilations as much as possible.
> 
> Please report how it goes, and thanks.
> 
> Karl
> 

FreeBSD 7.0 build was fine with settings:

: ${TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-fontconfig=/usr/local}
: ${TL_MAKE=gmake}





-- 
Manfred