[tlbuild] TeX Live 2019 build issues on Debian systems

[Paul Vojta]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 02:16:49PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Although I have yet to update a Utah Web page on the status of my TeX
> Live 2019 builds, I have done a number of them over the last couple of
> weeks, with the view that the source tree is stabilizing.
> 
> Today, I found a serious issue for building TeX Live on a new VM that
> I created over the weekend for Debian 10 (still in beta release):
> namely, three files in the texk/xdvik tree (events.c, x_util.c, and
> xdvi.c) have hardcoded #include directives with the path X11/Xaw/...,
> and the configure.ac script makes similar assumptions in its tests.
> 
> The problem is that Debian 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 do not have any package
> that installs into /usr/include/X11/Xaw, or supplies a library called
> /some/path/to/file/libXaw.so.

I'm running Debian 9 on my system, and it has files in /usr/include/X11/Xaw

_tiny> dpkg -S /usr/include/X11/Xaw/Dialog.h
libxaw7-dev:amd64: /usr/include/X11/Xaw/Dialog.h
_tiny> tail -3 /etc/issue

Debian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l

--Paul Vojta, vojta at math dot berkeley dot edu