[tlbuild] Building xindy for TL2010: two questions

[Nikola Lečić]

Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de> wrote
  in <alpine.LNX.2.00.1006090905120.11240 at pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de>
  on Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:24:49 +0200 (CEST):

> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Joachim Schrod wrote:
> 
> > For distributions that is true.
> 
> Hi Joachim, Vladimir, ...
> 
> let me first answer the original question.  TL uses a version of
> configure.ac adapted to the TL requirements.
> 
> The default value for '--enable-xindy-rules' and
> '--enable-xindy-docs' is no in a `native TeX Live build' and yes
> otherwise.
> 
> Finally $enable_xindy_rules=yes && $LATEX=no gives an error, same for
> $enable_xindy_docs=yes &&  $enable_xindy_rules=yes && $PDFLATEX=no.
> 
> So an attempt to build rules or docs files (explicitly requested or
> selected as default) will fail without LATEX/PDFLATEX.

So, what should builders do when compiling TL2010 in an environment
without (pdf)LaTeX?

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