[tlbuild] Building trunk

[Nikola Lečić]

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Hello,

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:05:10 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de> wrote:
 
> right, but not easy to avoid.  Here we need not only the pdfTeX
> program but also a latex.fmt, and I have no idea to build this with
> just the TL source tree.  I think Karl Berry has some tentative plans
> in this direction.

I do all (8 at the moment) builds in separate clean systems, so I
noticed this problem in tests phase and also in xindy/asy builds.

To override it in xindy/asy builds (in order to use freshly built
binaries for what they need), I mount external TL2009 tree inside clean
environment at that point, attach there freshly built 2010/dev
binaries, set PATH and proceed to xindy/asy build; then, new .fmt files
are created inside clean environment, xindy/asy compile, and the whole
artificial construction can be dismantled after that.

I used this method in the past to run tests, but after r16500 it is not
possible.

This is not perfect, but is it that complicated to provide a small
chunk of TL tree in order to use TL2010 binaries (e.g. latex, pdftex)
as you just described?

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