[tex-live] Installing TeXLive2008 on Cygwin
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Thu Aug 28 02:11:06 CEST 2008
1) I note that 'lib', 'texinfo' and 'include' do not show up in the ISO;
so, can one avoid to install them?
configure --without-texinfo for texinfo. For the others: no, I don't
think they can be reasonably avoided. Just ignore 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?
There is no need. texmf/doc should already contain everything that make
install installs, and more.
'texmf' has the extra directory 'bibtex' which, in the ISO, is instead
in 'texmf-dist'. Same question as in 2).
Same answer.
In the postinstall phase, 'install-tl' does not use the binaries just
installed but those which are in the PATH;
We do take steps to use the new binaries, otherwise installation would
completely fail. Apparently what we do does not suffice on Cygwin. It
is this (install-tl line 982 at present):
$ENV{'PATH'}="$plat_bindir" . "$pathsep" . "$ENV{'PATH'}";
You're going to have to tell us what needs to be done on Cygwin.
If you run install-tl --debug, you will get voluminous output about what
is being done. Perhaps that will help you find your way through the code.
karl
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