TeXLive 2008 for OpenBSD

Whats all this then?

This is the page for TeXLive 2008 on OpenBSD, which I am currently working on.

Last year I made a port of TeXLive for OpenBSD in order to create some packages that can be added using the standard 'pkg_add' command, rather than via the install script and for more architectures than can be found on the TeXLive DVD.

TeXLive is a LaTeX distribution. LaTeX is a typesetter which allows the user to make proffesional and beautiful documents.

Example Output

Why bother?

Who did this?

Status of the Port

TeXLive 2008 porting is in progress.

Test release 8 (08/10/08)

• Known to not build if icu is already installed
• fmtutil-sys reported to fail on amd64

Stable Version

TeXLive 2007 was committed into OpenBSD-current the ports tree on the 17th of July 2007 by jasper@openbsd.org.
TeXLive 2007 is included in OpenBSD-4.3

Thanks

• The ports@openbsd.org mailing list for answering my dumb questions.
• The tex-live@tug.org mailing list for answering more dumb questions.
• Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse for assisting the initial port commit.
• Steven Mestdagh (My "mentor")
• Karl Berry (of TeXLive) for his continued support during porting.
• Norbert Preinig (of Debian/TeXLive) for helping me understand TeX Package Manager.
• Hartmut Henkel and Frank Kuster for patience in helping me with updmap-sys.
• Jonathan Kew of XeTeX for patching away buggy nastiness on big endian systems.
• Dr. Peter Knaggs for helping me understand the build system.
• Shaun Bendall - The UNIX guy at Uni, for hosting my massive files and loaning hardware.
• My friends - Mainly Didi for putting up with my anti-social hackage.
• YellowShift - For hardware donations.
• Laurie Tratt - For helping with dep testing.
• Jason of yellowshift LLC - Hardware donation (Sun Blade 1000 for faster sparc64 testing).
• William Boshuck - Hardware Donation (Laptop battery for on the move hacking).

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