[tlbuild] Building pdfLAtex with texlive

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2018-03-23 at 08:30:27 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

 > On 22 March 2018 at 22:11, pilot constatinus wrote:
 > > Hi, dear texlive. I was wondering how can i build pdflatex, a latex compiler
 > > for pdf. Even if i built my tl with ./configure --enable-all-pkgs, under
 > > texk/web2c there is no pdflatex, only pdftex and some other tools. Can you
 > > help me?
 > 
 > pdflatex is just a symlink to pdftex.
 > 
 > You cannot use pdflatex in isolation, you need a TeX distribution for
 > that (with all the latex style files, fonts, settings and plenty of
 > other stuff). The TeX distribution sets up most of the stuff that's
 > needed for pdflatex to work. The details of how exactly this is done
 > is out of scope for this (building binaries) mailing list.

I suppose that the OP looked for pdflatex in the wrong directory
(Build/source/Work/texk/web2c).  But the final binaries and symlinks
are created in

  Build/source/inst/bin/<platform>

Regards,
  Reinhard

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