[tlbuild] TeX Live builds -- second summary

[Karl Berry]

    so you are using a distro that thinks they can discard the .la files. 

It's not like I'm doing anything obscure.  As far as I can tell neither
Red Hat nor Debian install .la files.  Not to mention there are all the
non-GNU/Linux systems out there that certainly do not use libtool
despite providing libz et al.  It would be a waste of time to complain,
or expect them to be there.

    What a mess.

But it's a mess that's been present since day 1.  Nothing has changed in
the world.  The binaries work.  Why go to some exhaustive and exhausting
amount of effort to solve a non-problem?

    I don't see how the get the
    '-I's required for the system ft2. 

Use the system freetype-config?

    On my linux system libfontconfig.so certainly pulls in libz.so, in
    addition to the libz.a from the TL tree.
    
All I know is what ldd tells me.  Maybe that's not enough.
$ ldd xetex
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fed000)
	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x008ce000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/nosegneg/libm.so.6 (0x005c1000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 (0x00478000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00829000)
	libexpat.so.0 => /lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x008ab000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00455000)