Re: texinfo not happy with texlive not producing log?

[Liviu Ionescu]

> On 1 Nov 2016, at 02:57, Norbert Preining <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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.

no, I don't *need* to recompile the binaries, but past experience with many 
other packages showed that some tools are not very happy when moved to a 
different folder then the one they were compiled for, so, mainly for safety 
reasons, I generally prefer to build everything from sources, with the actual 
`--prefix` set correctly during `configure`.


my current solution for the extra tools required by my macOS builds is a custom 
instance of Homebrew, installed in $HOME/opt/homebrew; since this is a custom 
location, Homebrew automatically builds everything from sources; unfortunately 
TeX is on the Homebrew blacklist, and the only solution is to use a Homebrew 
Cask, which is a workaround that installs MacTex as root, in the standard 
location, and adds it to the PATH. 

although functional, I'm not at all happy with this configuration, since I 
would like TeX installed as non-root, in my folder, and not added to the PATH; 
if the existing macOS binaries work when moved to another location, I don't 
need to compile my own binaries.

so any suggestions on how to do this will be welcomed.


regards,

Liviu