[tex-live] 2023 pretest available for testing

[Dr. Werner Fink]

An other question for biber and biber-ms ... the last one requires
the file multiscript.bltxml which is missed in biblatex-biber-ms.tar.gz.

But what would be more interesting ... does biber (without -ms) support
multiscript. Simply to avoid to have two different Biber.pm in system
perl site path installed.

On 2023/02/24 08:03:55 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On 2023/02/21 15:10:54 -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
> > As Uwe and others have noticed already, the repository for the TL23
> > pretest has been populated. It seems to be more or less functional.
> > 
> > Usage and change list on this page, as usual:
> > https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
> > 
> > Corrections and additions welcome, as usual. And, more importantly,
> > please test the new binaries.
> > 
> > By far the biggest change is that (as promised/threatened since last
> > year) the Windows binaries are now 64-bit, and in a new directory
> > bin/windows. The bin/win32 directory is gone. Hope it does not cause too
> > many problems. Thanks to Siep and Akira for making that happen.
> > 
> > Normal package updates sent to CTAN will be installed in both the
> > pretest and the regular (tlnet) repository for a while. --thanks, karl.
> 
> To be able to compile here the current source with
> 
>    --with-system-potrace
> 
> I've to add the following patch
> 
> --- m4/kpse-potrace-flags.m4
> +++ m4/kpse-potrace-flags.m4    2023-02-23 14:01:40.495959746 +0000
> @@ -27,5 +27,4 @@ AC_DEFUN([KPSE_POTRACE_OPTIONS], [_KPSE_
>  
>  # KPSE_POTRACE_SYSTEM_FLAGS
>  # ------------------------
> -AC_DEFUN([KPSE_POTRACE_SYSTEM_FLAGS], [dnl
> -_KPSE_PKG_CONFIG_FLAGS([POTRACE], [POTRACE])])
> +AC_DEFUN([KPSE_POTRACE_SYSTEM_FLAGS], [_KPSE_LIB_FLAGS_SYSTEM([potrace], [potrace])])
> 
> as otherwise the configure script breaks on detecting and using
> the libpotrace. AFAIK the potrace does not have a pkgconfig .pc
> file as well as upper case `POTRACE' would not match.
> 
> Werner
> 
> -- 
>   "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having
>           a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr

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