[tlbuild] starting builds for 2010

[Ken Brown]

On 4/22/2010 9:01 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> So, it seems to be time to start an initial round of builds for TL 2010
> from the current trunk sources.  The basic idea (run "Build") remains
> the same, although Peter has done yeoman work on cleaning up and
> updating the infrastructure.  http://tug.org/texlive/build.html has the
> details, as always.
>
>
> As for the extras:
>
> - The current version of xz is still xz-4.999.9beta.  I think that's
>    what we already have for at least most platforms, but please check for
>    yours if you're not sure.
> - xindy 2.4 will hopefully be coming, so don't expend any effort if
>    current xindy breaks, just disable it.  (Or rather, do not enable it.)
> - the current version of asymptote is committed, and please do try to
>    build it if you want to provide it.
>
>
> As for the changes:
>
> - Thanh and Hartmut have made one consequential bug fix to pdftex.  If
>    you are up for it, please build pdflatex.fmt with the new binary on
>    your platform, and try running the test files attached to
> http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4308&group_id=106&atid=493
>    It really does require running with a .fmt loaded, unfortunately.
>
> - there is a new version of bibtex with one tiny change, to avoid
>    breaking long lines with a %.
>
> - thanks to Akira, Norbert and others, a new engine ptex for Japanese
>    typesetting, with accompanying utilities, are included.  It is built
>    by default, and hopefully won't cause breakage.
>
> - it would be a good thing to try running make check after the build.
>    But if it fails, don't worry overmuch; most likely it's a problem in
>    the test scripts rather than the programs.  But still, we want to
>    check :).
>
> We won't contemplate freezing the sources and starting to build test
> images until at least most platforms have reported success and we're
> confident things are reasonably stable.  So please give it a whirl.

It built on Cygwin with no problems (except the usual warnings).  make 
check produced no failures.  pdflatex worked fine on the test file 
mentioned above.

Ken