[tlbuild] TeX Live builds -- second summary

[Ken Brown]

On 5/1/2009 7:27 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> The patch-workaround which fixes the problem is this:
[...]

Hi Angelo,

Your mail arrived while I was composing a message with a different 
solution:  Build --with-system-zlib.  This prevents the final link 
command from linking against both the system zlib and the TL zlib, and 
it produces a working xetex.exe.  (Or at least xetex --version works.)

By the way, I located the source of the -lz.  It's brought in by libtool 
because we're linking against fontconfig.  My /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la 
contains the following:

# libfontconfig.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.2
[...]
# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/libiconv.la /usr/lib/libfreetype.la -lz 
/usr/lib/libexpat.la'

I suspect yours is the same except that you probably don't have libiconv 
with your version of X11.

Maybe Peter or one of the other experts can tell us if there's any 
downside to building --with-system-zlib, or if there's a better way to 
work around the libtool issue.

Ken

P.S. With my solution, I don't know if -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION is 
still necessary.  I'll try without it and see what happens.