How does one use Asymptote on TL

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Let me be clear that I DO understand how to fix it.

One has to get the library, install it, and place a link where it is
expecting it,
in my case "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" to the place of installation. Most
people
do not need to get it, because copies of it are in directories under gnome,
kde, etc ...

What I do NOT understand is why TL installation would not do the right
thing
here, which would be to compile against a library in

      /usr/local/texlive/2024/lib/x86_64-linux/

and then build a sym-link from that dir to the best version available.

It builds it against a directory where the library it is not -- it could
easily build
it against one that TL has control of.

And if the library cannot be found, a message should be added to the post
install notes.

Paulo Ney


On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David,
>
> Is that what one has to do? Because it does not work on Debian out of the
> box either.
>
> I looked into the install notes and there is nothing about it either. Is
> this the only binary
> that needs post-install prepping?
>
> Paulo Ney
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> it works at texlive.net (debian) texlive 2024
>>
>> I think I got libglut.so.3  via apt from
>>
>> freeglut3/oldoldstable,now 2.8.1-3 amd64 [installed]
>>
>>
>> https://texlive.net/run?%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%5Binline%5D%7Basymptote%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Basy%7D%5Bwidth=%5Cthe%5Clinewidth,inline=true%5D%0Adraw((0,0)--(2,2));%0A%5Cend%7Basy%7D%0A%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 18:33, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Ubuntu I get:
>>>
>>> $ which asy
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/asy
>>> $ asy
>>> asy: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open
>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Updating the package with "tlmgr" did not change anything.
>>>
>>> I reported this issue some 8 years ago:
>>>
>>>     https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-September/039286.html
>>>
>>> it was fixed for a little while, and it worked with a -V flag or
>>> latexmk, but now, not even that works.
>>>
>>> Paulo Ney
>>>
>>
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