[tlbuild] adding scripts

[Norbert Preining]

On Sa, 29 Mai 2010, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> For example, for pstopdf, I have committed two new files and updated
> another:
>
> Master/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/pstopdf.exe
>   (a copy of runscript.exe)
> Master/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/pstopdf
>   (a short shell script running 'texmfstart pstopdf.rb')

Here you could do whatever you want, also if there is a proper shebank
line you could use .../bin/arch/pstopdf -> ..../pstopdf.rb

> Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/context.tlpsrc
>   (added the bin pattern)
>
> But this does not get the actual binaries in the correct bin
> directory, does it? So, how to do that? Do I just commit a bunch
> of Master/bin/*/ files?

In principle yes, but you should also:
- add the files to Build/source/texk/texlive/linked_scripts/$packagename
- edit Build/source/texk/texlive/linked_scripts/Makefile.*
that makes sure that on build with Build script the links are properly
recreated.

In Makefile.am there is the comment:
# Copies of these scripts exist here for the sake of avoiding
# dangling symlinks produced by `make install'.
# The instances in texmf* are the masters (except when it is CTAN).

For W32 you only make a copy in bin/win32 of the generic wrapper.
THe nightly cron run Master/tlpkg/bin/check-wrapper-consistency
that should check that all the linked scripts in the unix bins
and the wrappers on Windows agree
(Tomek, Karl, please correct me if I forgot something).


I cannot guarantee that this is all, but it is what I know.

Best wishes

Norbert
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