[tlbuild] TeX Live builds

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Martin Schröder wrote:

>> uname -a
> Linux nelson 2.6.22.19-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-12-18 10:17:03 +0100
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> ldd inst/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/xetex
>        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00002b49e7584000)
>        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00002b49e77b9000)
>        libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002b49e7a37000)
>        libexpat.so.1 => /lib64/libexpat.so.1 (0x00002b49e7c4d000)
>        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b49e7e71000)
>        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b49e80c4000)
>        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b49e7367000)
> Some of these should be static and not dynamic, I think.

Hi Martin,

I just checked my Linux-i686 build, as well as the i386 and x86_64 builds
from TL2008 (dated 2008-08-10 as in svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Master/bin).

They all show the same behaviour. The reason is this: they are linked
against the static libfreetype.a from the TL tree, but in addition need
libfontconfig (libfontconfig.so.1) which depends on libfreetype.so.6.

Thus as long as we don't build libfontconfig and libexpat in the TL tree,
this is not going to change (and I am not sure whether it should be
changed or not).

Regards
Peter