Re: texinfo not happy with texlive not producing log?

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Liviu,

> I know what went wrong, I missed the "detail" that I need to install 
> something :-(  (or, more correctly, more than "make install").
> 
> Up to now I successfully installed tens of other unix/linux packages, and all 
> required nothing more than source packages. tex is different, it basically 
> comes as a large collection of binary packages that need to be installed 
> separately.

Well, nobody took the time and energy to write a auto*/Makefile* configuration
at the root of the DVD, which calls the build process in the source directory,
then installs the generated binaries into the correct Master/bin/$ARCH/ dirs,
then runs install-tl...

> I only need texlive to pass the openocd & qemu documentation builds, and I 
> need it installed automatically (by a script) in a custom folder, so MacTex 
> is not exactly the preferred choice.

Do you *need* to recompile the binaries?

There are options, without any problem: Debian ships TeX Live packages since 
more than 10 years,
and all of them are build from source, no binaries included. It can be done, but
it needs a bit of work.

The easiest way if you absolutely need to compile your own binaries is as I 
wrote:
* compile them
* copy them into Master/bin/$ARCH/
* genereate a texlive.profile 
* run install-tl -profile texlive.profile

That can all be automatized and done offline and without human
attendance.

But actually, this is not a question of texinfo ....

All the best

Norbert

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