Xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML) that process some kind of text and generate indexing information.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://tug.ctan.org/support/xindy/base/xindy-2.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 221acfeeb0f6f8388f89a59c56491041
Download size: 506 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xindy
Install xindy by running the following commands:
export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" make-rules/inputenc/Makefile.in &&
patch -Np1 -i ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/2016 \
--bindir=/opt/texlive/2016/bin/$TEXARCH \
--datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2016 \
--includedir=/usr/include \
--libdir=/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist \
--mandir=/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/man &&
make LC_ALL=POSIX
This package does not have a testsuite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" ...: The build sorts files in latin{1..3} encodings to create latin.xdy, and unicode versions of these to create utf8.xdy after using grep -v '^;' to remove blank lines. With grep-2.23 any data not in the expected encoding is treated as binary, resulting in a useless file. This command uses an alternative way of removing blank lines.
patch -Np1 -i ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-1.patch: Xindy is now maintained at CTAN. This patch updates the source to match what is used for the 2016 texlive binary version ( but ignoring changes which were only made to allow for spaces in pathnames).
--prefix=, --bindir=, --datarootdir=,
--infodir=, --mandir= ... : these switches ensure that
the files installed from source will overwrite any corresponding
files previously installed by install-tl-unx so that the alternative methods
of installing texlive are
consistent..
--includedir=/usr/include:
This parameter ensures that the kpathsea headers from texlive-20160523b will be found.
make LC_ALL=POSIX:
with the current version of coreutils it is essential to build
xindy in the POSIX (or C) locale
because in a UTF-8 locale the file latin.xdy will contain only a heading and then a
line 'Binary file (standard input)
matches' instead of the many lines of lisp merge-rule commands it ought to contain.
Last updated on 2017-02-16 20:33:09 -0800