Re: [Dev-luatex] new luatex for Debian
Hi Taco,
thanks for your answer.
On Di, 22 Mai 2012, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> I believe Martin and Hartmut are busy merging back the library changes
> in texlive to the standalone luatex, but that would be on trunk. It
> will make sense to release a 0.70.2 in a few weeks to consolidate
> the current state of the texlive sources into the luatex repository,
> but at this time I cannot predict exactly when.
Ok, bad then.
> No script, as each year much of the build stuff is significantly
> different from the previous year, and you can't really fix the .am and
> .ac files automatically. From past experience, it will typically
> take a day of work to extract just the luatex parts from the tl build
> process.
Yes indeed, I started on that bug gave up after some time.
Hmm, I don't know ... I will see what I can do. Maybe the
hardcore to use all of texlive sources as sources for luatex,
but build only luatex for now ... until a new standalone release
is done.
I think this is the best intermediate solution.
Best wishes
Norbert
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