Bug#389790: [Fwd: Re: changing tetex render engine]

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Olaf!

On Don, 28 Sep 2006, Olaf Weber wrote:
> I've seen issues with TeX-live and mismatched shared libraries because
> versioning some libraries wasn't handled correctly.  This is why
> TeX-live should be built with the libraries in its source tree
> statically linked, unless you have the manpower available to sort out
> any issues resulting form shared linkage.

For Debian the TeX live binaries are build on a mixed basis:
	--with-system-ncurses --with-system-pnglib  
	--with-system-zlib --with-system-gd
but the rest, especially libkpathsea, is used as in the sources.

Do you expect problems from this?

Best wishes

Norbert

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