[tldistro] --with-tex-banner

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Tue Jun 2 02:40:09 CEST 2009


Hello TeX distro people,

This is just a heads-up for now.  Not like TL'09 will be released
tomorrow or anything :).

With this year's release, we added a new configure option, typically
used like this:
--with-tex-banner='"TeX Live 2009"'

This string will be used in the --version output and in the tex/etc.
first-line "banners". For the upstream/native TeX Live, the result looks
like this:
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009)

For your distro builds, we request/encourage you to add a suffix to the
string, something like this:
--with-tex-banner='"TeX Live 2009/Debian"'

Thus getting output like this:
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

This will hopefully make it clearer both to users and in bug reports
what version is being run.

It doesn't necessarily have to include "TeX Live", but it should say
"2009" in there somewhere.  The configure script checks for it.  If
anyone finds that an onerous burden, let me know.

To distinguish engines built outside of TeX Live, e.g.,
luatex/mpost/pdftex/whatever built in their own source trees, the
default in the code is "Web2C 2009".  It is TL's Build script which
specifies the "TeX Live" string.

Thanks,
Karl


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