Re: Installing xetex from SVN alongside texlive_2007-14

["R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chandra@ee.uwa.edu.au>]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> > How should I compile and install this downloaded xetex so that it can 
>
> If you only need a new xetex binary, just compile one and put it into
> /usr/bin/xetex (keeping a backup of the old one).
>
> It should find the /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf file and work from
> that on completely normal.
>
> Then there are updates to the packages, you should preferably put into
> TEXMFLOCAL

Notwithstanding previous correspondence, I have today built and installed the 
SVN TRUNK sources of xetex. There are two scripts to be executed in order:

./build-xetex
sudo ./install-xetex

The latter has been very thoughtfully written so that only two binaries go into 
/usr/bin/ and the rest get installed in the TEXMFLOCAL tree so:

-------
/usr/bin/xetex
/usr/bin/xdvipdfmx
/usr/local/share/texmf/source/xelatex/euenc/euenc.ins
/usr/local/share/texmf/source/xelatex/euenc/euenc.dtx
...
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
...
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/url.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/crop.cfg
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/hyperref.cfg
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/xltxtra.sty
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/geometry.cfg
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/xunicode.sty
...
/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/thaidigits.map
/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/tex-text.tec
/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/tex-text.map
-------

So far, the co-existence is peaceful and I thought I would share this 
information for the benefit of those contemplating doing something similar.

Chandra