[tlbuild] Build failure of tl2009

[Angelo Graziosi]

After a fresh checkout (rev. 13020), the build of TL2009 on Cygwin is 
still broken. Now it fails in this way:

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=== configuring in xindy (/tmp/texlive-source/Work/utils/xindy)
make: running /bin/sh ../../../utils/xindy/configure
  '--disable-option-checking' '--prefix=/tmp/texlive-source/inst' 
'--datadir=/tmp/texlive-source/inst' '--disable-shared' 
'--disable-largefile' '--with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw' '--disable-threads' 
'--with-old-mac-fonts' '--disable-xindy' '--without-graphite' 'CC=gcc-4' 
'CFLAGS=-Wno-write-strings -Wno-attributes' 
'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc' 
'CPP=cpp-4' 'CXX=g++-4' 'CXXFLAGS=-Wno-write-strings -Wno-attributes' 
'--enable-native-texlive-build' '--enable-multiplatform' 
'--enable-cxx-runtime-hack' '--bindir=${exec_prefix}/bin/i686-pc-cygwin' 
'--libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib/i686-pc-cygwin' '--enable-dialog=yes' 
'--enable-pdfopen=yes' '--enable-ps2eps=yes' '--enable-psutils=yes' 
'--enable-t1utils=yes' '--enable-tpic2pdftex=yes' '--enable-vlna=yes' 
'--enable-web2c=yes' '--enable-afm2pl=yes' '--enable-bibtex8=yes' 
'--enable-cjkutils=yes' '--enable-detex=yes' '--enable-devnag=yes' 
'--enable-dtl=yes' '--enable-dvi2tty=yes' '--enable-dvidvi=yes' 
'--enable-dviljk=yes' '--enable-dvipdfm=yes' '--enable-dvipdfmx=yes' 
'--enable-dvipng=yes' '--enable-dvipos=yes' '--enable-dvipsk=yes' 
'--enable-gsftopk=yes' '--enable-lacheck=yes' 
'--enable-lcdf-typetools=yes' '--enable-makeindexk=yes' 
'--enable-musixflx=yes' '--enable-ps2pkm=yes' '--enable-seetexk=yes' 
'--enable-tex4htk=yes' '--enable-ttf2pk=yes' '--enable-ttfdump=yes' 
'--enable-xdv2pdf=yes' '--enable-xdvik=yes' '--enable-xdvipdfmx=yes' 
'--enable-tetex=yes' '--enable-texlive=yes' '--with-system-kpathsea=no' 
'--with-system-teckit=no' '--with-system-graphite=no' 
'--with-system-xpdf=no' '--with-system-gd=no' 
'--with-system-freetype2=no' '--with-system-freetype=no' 
'--with-system-t1lib=no' '--with-system-libpng=no' 
'--with-system-zlib=no' '--mandir=${prefix}/texmf/doc/man' 
'--infodir=${prefix}/texmf/doc/info' '--cache-file=/dev/null' 
'--srcdir=../../../utils/xindy' --disable-build
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc-4
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc-4 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc-4 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc-4... gcc3
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
configure: Using installation layout for TeX Live
configure: Disabling docs building
checking for latex... no
checking for elatex... no
checking for lambda... no
configure: error: Unable to find a LaTeX application
make[3]: *** [subutils] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texlive-source/Work/utils'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texlive-source/Work/utils'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texlive-source/Work'
make: *** [install-strip] Error 2

real    23m5.242s
user    22m54.205s
sys     9m20.567s
+ echo 2

/tmp/texlive-source/Build: 8 executables in /tmp/texlive-source/inst/bin.
done Sat May 9 19:13:45 2009
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It seems that now the build of xindy is enabled by default.

Shouldn't it off by default?


Cheers,
    Angelo.