[tex-live] Installing TeXLive2008 on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

Karl Berry ha scritto:
>     How can I install the above ? 
> 
> http://tug.org/texlive/build.html#deploy
> 
>     Is there a way to modify the iso so that I 
>     can use the (linux-like) script install-tl?
> 
> After copying the binaries per above, install-tl should basically work.
> The only question in my mind is whether the new directory (say,
> i386-cygwin) will show up in the architecture list.  (I'm sure it won't
> be selected by default.)

No, it does not show up nor is selected by defaul.

It seems that, for the moment, we can't install the cygwin binaries
using 'install-tl'.

I have a few questions.

My build creates an 'inst' directory with this structure:

$ ls -lrt inst/
totale 1068
drwxr-xr-x+  3 ...   0 Aug 25 13:08 bin
drwxr-xr-x+  3 ...   0 Aug 25 13:08 lib
drwxr-xr-x+  2 ...   0 Aug 25 13:08 texinfo
drwxr-xr-x+  4 ...   0 Aug 25 13:08 share
drwxr-xr-x+  3 ...   0 Aug 25 13:09 include
drwxr-xr-x+  2 ...   0 Aug 25 13:10 lcdf-typetools
drwxr-xr-x+  3 ...   0 Aug 25 13:10 texmf-dist
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 ...   0 Aug 25 13:11 texmf

1)
I note that 'lib', 'texinfo' and 'include' do not show up in the ISO;
so, can one avoid to install them?

2)
'share' has 'man' and 'info'. Should one copy them to
'/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc', overwriting the 'man' and 'info'
which are there?

3)
'texmf' has the extra directory 'bibtex' which, in the ISO, is instead
in 'texmf-dist'. Same question as in 2).

4) For the sake of completeness...
In the postinstall phase, 'install-tl' does not use the binaries just
installed but those which are in the PATH; so, if one has another TeX
system installed (teTeX) then it is used!. From install-tl.log:

...
fmtutil: running `mpost -ini   -jobname=mpost -progname=mpost 
-translate-file=cp227.tcx mpost.mp' ...
  This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INIMP)
  (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
  (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/config/mpost.mp
  (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/config/mpost.ini
  (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp
  Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.64) ) )
  Beginning to dump on file mpost.mem
   (mem=mpost 2008.8.25)
  at most 1430 strings of total length 23625
  3296 memory locations dumped; current usage is 977&2225
  477 symbolic tokens
  Transcript written on mpost.log.
...

Note the version: 'This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4)' NOT
'MetaPost 1.005 (Web2C 7.5.7)'...


Cheers,
    Angelo.