[tex-live] xindy now in build
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Wed Mar 26 01:35:56 CET 2008
1. I fear we should disable xindy by default just now. Sorry, Vladimir.
There are too many configuration problems, and there is too much else
going on (luatex, knuth) just now. We should be able to get some
xindy binaries into the distribution in the end, but I think the
current build is going to fail for just about everyone, one way or
another. So let's let the people who can experiment with it enable it.
2. My own build process that I reported yesterday was insufficient. The
binary ended up getting dynamically linked with libavcall and
libcallback, which would make it useless to distribute. The final
link line was:
gcc -g -O2 -Igllib -W ... -ldl /usr/local/gnu/lib/libavcall.so
-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/gnu/lib /usr/local/gnu/lib/libcallback.so -o lisp.run
What finally got a working binary for me was to replace the .so's
with .a's. (The libffcall build could create both.) Whether the
resulting binary actually works (beyond starting up), I don't know.
I haven't updated my notes in source/utils/README yet.
Anyway, obviously manually modifying link lines is a nonstarter in
terms of a usable build process. So somehow that has to be changed.
But I don't know how, since the command is generated by clisp-link.
I don't think we can even get the command without running it and then
sed it or something ...
3. libffcall was fairly recently made a GNU package, so it is not
completely moribund, in the sense that at least the authors cared
about it enough to request that. Bruno Haible and Sam Steingold are
the maintainers (same as clisp). We could write them about these
problems and patches, but I suspect fixing things on nonfree systems
is not going to be a priority for them. Certainly can't count on it
happening for our release.
4. Regarding the fancy configure options, I think the right thing to do
is make it happen inside xindy's configure, by default, given
our --enable-tetex-build. I don't really want to add a ton of
package-specific options to Build.
Maybe the best thing to do is wait for Joachim's new version?
karl
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