[tlbuild] TeX Live 2019 for CentOS 8 now in Utah build archive

[John Bowman]

Hi Nelson,
I don't think Asymptote needs dvipdf (it calls ghostscript directly, which
is all that
the wrapper dvipdf does anyway). In any case, I don't see any reason to
remove
the version of dvipdf in the Asymptote patches directory, which is patched
to
accept common dvips options. We distribute it just for convenience for those
users who still like to use dvips.

-- John

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>
wrote:

> CentOS 8 was finally released yesterday, 24 September 2019, and I created
> a new VM for it that day, and today, completed sufficient binary and source
> code package installations that I could attempt a TeX Live 2019 build.
> I succeeded, with some nuisances; the story is at
>
>         http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/README.html#centos-8
>
> It is fairly clear now that use of dvipdf must be excised from Asymptote.
> [My build today on CentOS 8 was with the texlive-20190919 snapshot.]
>
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