On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 19:37 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
When sources are updated and if everything is set up properly, you only need to run a single command from terminal (at the end you need to provide svn password unless you configure svn to store it for you). It takes about 10 minutes to finish compilation, but it only takes processor time, no work for you. You can also set up a cron job to run each night in which case there will be absolutely zero work for you unless compilation fails.
What is more important is not to abandone the work once you start it. It makes little to no sense to provide binaries if you happen to, say, not have time to update the binaries for a month.
You can try svn co http://svn.contextgarden.net/minimals-src/build-binaries
Try to run bin_update_src.sh and try to build luatex and metapost (you can also run bin_buid.sh, but then you need to patch platform.sh first). Usually you just hit "do_all.sh".
However the first required step is to build TeX Live sources. See http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html
The deadline for release of TeX Line 2011 is end of June. It would be most helpful for me if TeX Live's SVN could include binaries. Updating TeX Live binaries is only done once per year and you might need to repeat that two or three times within a month (when bugs are discovered).
Can you please try if you can build the successfully?
Mojca
Hey Mojca, I think you raise some good points and this would be a useful contribution to the project. I think the easiest thing to do would be if I just give you a shell account on a MIPS64 machine and you can run this yourself, if you like. I haven't much time. If that is ok with you, please email me off the list. Take care, -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com