[tlbuild] installation after build

[Norbert Preining]

On Mo, 22 Sep 2008, anonymous anonymous wrote:
> My question is : where should the contents of "texmf" tarball be put in order to have a usable copy of TeX Live ?

ROOT/bin/<..binaries..>
	(if you have disable-multi, but I am NOT (!!!) sure that works
	at all)
ROOT/texmf/
ROOT/texmf-dist/
...

> I find that the resultant of my build is quite different from those described in the web page http://tug.org/texlive/build.html . My executables are in "$PREFIX/bin/", not  "build/source/inst/bin/". Also, I can't find the "Master/bin/" directory.

Because you did not use our Build script.

> I think there's a gap in the documentation. Can someone supply the post-build instructions ?

There are no post-build isntructions. Just copy the files to the right
location, honoring SELFAUTOPARENT etc.

Why do you want to build your own binaries? D you have such a strange
system that we don't provide binaries already?

Best wishes

Norbert

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