Re: dvisvgm dependencies

On 11/24/24 5:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via 
blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> I am trying to build dvisvgm with a subset of texlive.  I am getting
>
> checking for kpathsea/kpathsea.h... no
> configure: error: please install the kpathsea development package
>
> When I use install-tl I used the following collections:
>
>  a [X] Essential programs and files      w [ ] Italian
>  b [ ] BibTeX additional styles          x [ ] Japanese
>  c [ ] TeX auxiliary programs            y [ ] Korean
>  d [ ] ConTeXt and packages              z [ ] Other languages
>  e [ ] Additional fonts                  A [ ] Polish
>  f [ ] Recommended fonts                 B [ ] Portuguese
>  g [ ] Graphics and font utilities       C [ ] Spanish
>  h [ ] Additional formats                D [X] LaTeX fundamental packages
>  i [ ] Games typesetting                 E [ ] LaTeX additional packages
>  j [ ] Humanities packages               F [X] LaTeX recommended packages
>  k [ ] Arabic                            G [ ] LuaTeX packages
>  l [ ] Chinese                           H [X] MetaPost and Metafont 
> packages
>  m [ ] Chinese/Japanese/Korean (base)    I [ ] Music packages
>  n [ ] Cyrillic                          J [ ] Graphics, pictures, 
> diagrams
>  o [ ] Czech/Slovak                      K [ ] Plain (La)TeX packages
>  p [ ] US and UK English                 L [ ] PSTricks
>  s [ ] Other European languages          M [ ] Publisher styles, 
> theses, etc.
>  t [ ] French                            N [ ] Windows-only support 
> programs
>  u [ ] German                            O [X] XeTeX and packages
>  v [ ] Greek
>  P [ ] Mathematics, natural sciences, computer science packages
>  S [ ] TeXworks editor; TL includes only the Windows binary
>
> Added c and P.  Didn't work.  Now at 1.3 G
>
> Tried some other options but I couldn't make it work.  Finally gave up 
> and did a complete install of texlive from source.  Now dvisvgm builds.
>
> The problem is that I really don't like to install something that 
> takes 8G for a 47M executable.  AFAICT, the only texlive thing that 
> dvisvgm needs is:
>
> libkpathsea.so.6 => /opt/texlive/2024/lib/libkpathsea.so.6
>
> and /opt/texlive/2024/include/kpathsea/kpathsea.h.
>
> Does anyone know how (if?) to get those files using install-tl-unx?
I don't build texlive or dvisvgm but I ran into this when building a 
package for Mate that has libkpathsea as an optional dependency.

Instead of building all of texlive, what I do is:
   cd texk/kpathsea
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
   make
   make install

It doesn't meet your requirement of using install-tl-unx but gets the 
job done.

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