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

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Norbert Preining writes:

> 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?

I don't recall the exact details, but this set shared libraries is
likely safe.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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