TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - is this going to happen or not?

[Nikola Lečić]

On Sat, 26 May 2012 10:38:18 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 05/26/2012 09:19 AM, Nikola Lečić wrote:
> This is what I have done, and it has worked very well - except the
> xdvi program that came with texlive was linked to a different version
> of the xorg libraries!
[...]
> P.S.  How did I solve the xdvi problem?  I installed texlive from the
> texlive web site.  Then I installed the FreeBSD print/teTeX port. 
> Then I set PATH so that it picked up most of the commands from
> /usr/local/texlive/bin, but picked up xdvi from /usr/local/bin.  I
> know it is an ugly hack.

Please read this document:

  http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2011/bin/README.txt

TeX Live FreeBSD binaries are a compromise between portability and
easiness to resolve problems in cases such as yours.

We did a lot of work over the last 3 years (minimalistic compiler
options, customised perl binaries/libs...) to reduce the number of
shared libraries dependencies as much as possible. The result: the
installer, package manager and ca. 350 non-graphic utilities work for
all FreeBSD>=7. If you use asymptote, xdvi or xindy (compiled with
clisp) on FreeBSD>7, simply install misc/compat7. 

Best,
Nikola (maintainer of TeX Live for FreeBSD)
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