tlbuild: Building
4 Building
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The top-level 'Build' script is intended to simplify building the
binaries distributed with TeX Live itself--we call this the "native" TL
build. It runs 'configure && make world', which builds everything in a
subdirectory of the main source tree (default 'Work/'), installs
everything in another subdirectory (default 'inst/'), and finally runs
'make check'. The exact directory and command names can be specified
via environment variables and a few leading options. All remaining
arguments (assignments or options) are passed to the 'configure' script.
Please take a look at the './Build' source file for more information; it
is a straightforward shell script.
An alternative, and the one we will mainly discuss here, is to run
'configure' and 'make' in a suitable empty subdirectory. Building in
the source directory itself is not supported (sorry).
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