[tex-k] Building standalone kpathsea

[Norman Gray]

Greetings.

Here (in case it's useful) are some instructions for building a standalone kpathsea library.  I don't think many people want to do this, but I do, and I might as well share my how-to (google: come ye and fetch...).

Building from Subversion:

You can check out the entire tree (svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source) but that takes a _long_ while.  Or you can check out just the required bits:

  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/m4
  % svn export svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/version.ac
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/am texk/am
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea texk/kpathsea
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/tests/texmf texk/tests/texmf
  % cd texk/kpathsea

Then build:

  % autoreconf --install --symlink
  % ./configure
  % make
  % make check
  % make install

Alternatively, snarf a copy of the base tree from eg <http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base.zip>, unpack it, cd to base/source/texk/kpathsea, and build as above.

All the best,

Norman


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SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK