On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:38:14PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Do you use TeX ? The only testing I do is with my test files, and > >it took me long enough to get those to work 8) I noticed that some > >biber scripts use ruby, but my minimal test of (binary) biber works > >without ruby, so I think that my test coverage is quite minimal. > > I've used TeX fairly extensively in the past, but not recently. However TeX > is not livetex. TeX only takes a source file (whatever.tex usually) and > creates a dvi file. That is one program written by Knuth and works very > well. Other programs are then needed like dvips. > > The current version is 3.1415926. That is, of course, pi. Knuth adds one > digit for every change. I think I was using 3.14159 in 1993 so that tells > you how much it has changed. > > TeX is extremely powerful, but the syntax takes a bit of effort to > understand. It's not our role to do extensive testing. If a minimal > program works, then problems need to be addressed upstream. > > -- Bruce The point I was trying to make, unsuccessfully, is that TeX Live [ the full package, not just the original TeX program itself ] is an enormous package. And if we build it wrongly, the problem is our fault.
We have already found that the "straight" build we do does not install xindy or biber (which are part of the binary). I managed to build xindy, but at that time I had no way of testing it. When I eventually managed to do that, my from-source version did not work. I fixed that problem this week (not in the book, needs two extra packages, I think we are too close to 7.6, particularly when biber from source is still untested), and found out how to minimally use biber, which is why I started this thread. BTW - if we move to from-source-only, with the 1.7GB texmf tarball, will that be a space problem for anduin ? ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
