[tlbuild] TeX Live 2012 build progress report from Utah

[Nikola Lečić]

Hi Nelson,

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:17:10AM -0600
  in <CMM.0.95.0.1335543430.beebe at psi.math.utah.edu>
  "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:

[...]
> Of these, i386-freebsd9.0, i386-solaris-11, and sparc64-solaris are
> unique to my site, and will be offered for the master TeX Live
> distribution.
[...]

> On FreeBSD 9.0 x86, there are library dependencies on
> 
>       /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6              /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6
>       /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6               /usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6
>       /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6              /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4
>       /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6              /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6
>       /usr/local/lib/libXaw7.so.7             /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0
>       /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6            /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2
> 
> However, on that O/S release, the vendor X11 libraries are put into
> the /usr/local tree (yuck! hands off my tree!), so there should be no
> portability issues for other FreeBSD 9 sites.

Last year, I tried to explain that third-party libraries (/usr/local/)
and base system are decoupled on FreeBSD:

  http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-May/029216.html

To repeat: these third-party libraries are not "put" into /usr/local/
as part of some release process (as you said). FreeBSD simply does not
work that way.

There is no need for separate "9.0" binaries this year, just as there
was no need for separate 8-STABLE or 9-CURRENT binaries last year.
Again, as I said last year, the existing binaries are built to provide
maximum possible portability: they work on all releases on 7, 8 and 9
branches, including installer and even biber.

Nothing changed this year.

For some special cases, please read

  http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2011/bin/README.txt

HTH,
-- 
Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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