[tlbuild] TeX Live builds -- second summary

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> Ken Brown ha scritto:
>
>> Your mail arrived while I was composing a message with a different 
>> solution:  Build --with-system-zlib.
>
> Indeed. But if I remember correctly, the TL guys want the executable linked 
> *with* TL libs not those of the host system.

Hi Angelo, Ken,

I think we have two quite different scenarios (this will be described in a
top-level/README.config, yet to be written):

(1) TL binary build for the TL2009 CD. There we want system libraries only
when absolutely necessary, a static libstdc++ if possible, and
multi-platform install paths.  In TL2008 Cygwin was not included.

(2) distro build of the TL tree (Cywin 1.5 and/or 1.7, Debian/SuSe/RedHat
Linux for various architectures, etc.).

There we certainly would use system libraries whenever applicable, most
likely a shared libstdc++ (.so.6 for newer distros, maybe .so.5 for ancient
ones), no multi-platform install paths, and possibly even a shared
libkpathsea (currently not recommended).

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The ./Build script as well as configure select (1) by default, but this can
be changed by various configure options.

Regards
Peter