[tlbuild] building without linked-scripts
Bob Tennent
rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Tue Nov 13 00:12:09 CET 2012
>|On Mo, 12 Nov 2012, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>|> I don't quite understand your problem with that link, because 'make
>|install'
>|> in utils/m-tx will install that link and the lua script excactly
>|as pmx2pdf
>|> and the corresponding lua script are installed in utils/pmx.
>|
>|My point was only that when I disable the linkedscripts target,
>|then everything but m-tx and pmx2pdf are bin internal, i.e., no
>|links outside the bin directory.
>|
>|So in packaging I don't have to do anything special ;-)
>|ANyway, I have that now excluded with --disable-m-tx
>|(it appeared only because before it was named --disable-mtx which I
>|had in my build script).
>|
>|In (Debian) package building all these links are the most problematic
>|ones. We have three classes (or more):
>|* installed by linked_scripts target
>|* installed/defined by formats (texlinks), i.e., links for format names
>|* some other
>|
>|THese some other I don't understand how they are created,maintained:
>|(I assume from the recpective Makefiles in the sub dirs of source?)
>|
>|(format: real link)
>|usr/bin/allcm usr/bin/allec
>|usr/bin/kpsetool usr/bin/kpsepath
>|usr/bin/kpsetool usr/bin/kpsexpand
>|usr/bin/fmtutil usr/bin/mktexfmt
>|usr/bin/lua2dox_lua usr/bin/lua2dox_filter
>|usr/bin/pdfcrop usr/bin/rpdfcrop
Hi. I'm the maintainer of the m-tx package. I'm not really
understanding this thread, but if there's something I need
to do, I'm sure somebody will tell me :+)
Bob T.
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