[tlbuild] Build instructions for biber

[Nikola Lečić]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:27:02 +0100
Marc Baudoin <babafou at babafou.eu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build biber binaries on NetBSD for the upcoming TeX
> Live 2014.
> 
> Following the instructions of the biber.pdf file in the source
> tree (section 4.4), I did everything up to "Build install".
> 
> Then it is stated that, for new architectures (this is the case),
> a subdirectory should be created in the dist directory and that a
> biber.files file should be copied and adapted from an existing
> architecture.  But I can't no dist directory and no biber.files
> file.
> 
> Did I do something wrong? Does anybody has the right build
> instructions?

Hi Marc,

I build biber for FreeBSD. You can try to adapt my FreeBSD files
(attached) - it should be simpler than adapting Linux files from the
biber source tree. Beware: these are for biber 1.6.

HTH,
-- 
Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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