[tlbuild] asy-2.85 and TL23 versions

[Johannes Hielscher]

Am Thu, 9 Feb 2023 15:02:09 -0700
schrieb Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

> I installed asymptote 2.85 in the TL repository. If you compile asy,
> please give it a try.

Builds fine here on aarch64-linux (alongside all the rest of TL)
off -r65784.

I had not noticed before that asy is making use of libtirpc, and
./configure will remind you if this system library is not available.

Looking into the asy changelog [0], John Bowman recommends usage of
tirpc, so I added libtirpc-dev into my build dependencies (Debian
Buster) – build works with and without it.

I cannot assess good practice for that dependency in TL. Apparently,
this was already in place last year in the TL downstream copy of the
asy repo. And it seems the status quo has not caused big troubles as of
yet.


Best,
Johannes

[0]
/trunk/Build/source/utils/asymptote/ChangeLog
commit 827f4188c785a80199c9499122b04256667880bb
2022-01-02

> 
> I also updated version numbers and copyrights for 2023.
> 
> I hope any pending nontrivial source changes will be done within the
> next few days. Hoping to start setting up the pretest around ~Feb 17.
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl