[tex-live] dvipdfmx on CentOS 5.6 (glibc 2.5)

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/4/14 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
>    my SSH connection quits randomly fairly often (I think it's my ISP's
>    fault), and the first time I tried Build, it quit during the build.
>    I just restarted the SSH session and ran Build again.  Is that bad?
>
> Not wrong, just time-consuming.  Running Build restarts everything from
> scratch, removing what was done before.
>
> You can use nohup to avoid the disconnection from stopping the build:
>  nohup Build --disable-pdfopen >& build.out &
>
> Then you can check build.out to see how it's doing.
>
> I usually log out intentionally (i.e., run exit) after starting the
> nohup, and then log back in.  This shouldn't be necessary but, sadly,
> sometimes is, in my experience.
>
I have just successfully built TL on CentOS 5.3, x86_64. I do not
build xindy because I do not have required tools installed, all the
rest builds fine.

> HTH,
> karl



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