[tldistro] dvisvgm is building bundled libs when it shouldn't?

Preuße, Hilmar hille42 at web.de
Mon May 6 22:40:55 CEST 2024


On 06.05.2024 22:22, Edd Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 04:33:05PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:

Hi Edd,

>> Thus, my suggestion is to build dvisvgm from the original upstream
>> source instead of as part of TL. I suspect that will go much easier for
>> you (and all distros).  And if there are problems, at least the dvisvgm
>> maintainer will find it easier to respond to reports independent of TL.
> 
> As I understand, I only need the binary executable, right? Everything else is
> in the texmf tree?
> 

Down here in Debian we split off the dvisvgm in 2019. If you look at [1] 
you see that the separate package really just contains the executable.

H.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/dvisvgm
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