Missing programs from Texlive

[SDRausty]

There are some important programs like xindy, biber and makeindex missing from the Termux Texlive package. Can they be included?

[Grimler91]

Hi @sdrausty, I can activate makeindex the next time I push a texlive update (which I don't want to do too often since each revision currently forces users to download every CTAN package in the installation scheme again). Biber (probably) requires some porting (I haven't tried building it, yet). xindy (probably) requires quite a lot of work to get it running on termux (see the notes here)

Feel free to contribute and attempt to build the packages yourself! :)

I'll post here if I make any progress.

[SDRausty]

Thank you for preparing TexLive for​ Termux! If you can activate makeindex, the HoTTbook https://github.com/sdrausty/HoTTbook might build from the Makefile onDevice as well as from it does using pdflatex with bibtex. The ~472 page book builds well onDevice, but alas without makeindex.

Building https://github.com/sdrausty/hpmor ~1985 pages, and then following along listening to espeak's tember and tone digital voice; Have you tried it on?

[Grimler91]

I'll forward the praise to @rnauber since he has done ~95 % on the work of Termux's texlive package.

I haven't encountered about HPMOR before, it seems interesting. I will be spending in total 10 hours on a train this weekend, HPMOR + espeak might come in handy 👍

[Neo-Oli]

@Grimler91 @sdrausty As a total side note. HPMOR has an excellent Fan-made Audiobook http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=56

[SDRausty]

I am impressed.

cdd p /sdcard/Download/ wget http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/episodes/HPMoR_Chap_1.mp3

Thank you for the link to the audio book!

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[Grimler91]

@sdrausty, makeindex is now available with the latest texlive update (#1072). I haven't tested it though so please report bugs if encountered.

[SDRausty]

@Grimler91 Thank you for developing this package! 😀

https://github.com/sdrausty/hpmor builds into a wonderful 1985 page PDF with one command make.

[SDRausty]

@Grimler91 makeindexworks well on https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex Thank you 😀

[Grimler91]

@sdrausty That's great to hear :)

[qoheniac]

Has anyone tried to build biber? What is the problem with it?

[Grimler91]

@qoheniac I haven't tried it since my last message here, but the problem back then was that installing all the perl dependencies is hard tedious. Many perl packages failed to install and required patches/some workaround.

[qoheniac]

Did you read the instructions in section 4.4 of the documentation here?

[Grimler91]

Yes. Problem is that termux isn't a full gnu/linux system and perls package manager doesn't handle this as nicely as for example pip.

But please try building it, the situation might have improved during this year.

[qoheniac]

I just tried installing the required perl packages via cpanm and there were three making trouble:

1. ExtUtils::LibBuilder
2. LWP::Protocol::https
3. Text::BibTeX

[qoheniac]

The problem with LWP::Protocol::https was that I was missing the openssl-tool package. Text::BibTeX seems to be more complicated: I tried to build btparse from source but all tests failed.

WARNING: linker: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/btparse/btparse-0.34/tests/.libs/lt-read_test: unused DT entry: type 0x1d arg 0xf1                                                
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: library "libbtparse.so.0" not found
page record for 0xb6f7b02c was not found (block_size=16)
FAIL: read_test
WARNING: linker: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/btparse/btparse-0.34/tests/.libs/lt-simple_test: unused DT entry: type 0x1d arg 0x174
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: library "libbtparse.so.0" not found
page record for 0xb6f7202c was not found (block_size=16)
FAIL: simple_test
WARNING: linker: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/btparse/btparse-0.34/tests/.libs/lt-postprocess_test: unused DT entry: type 0x1d arg 0xb1                                         
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: library "libbtparse.so.0" not found
page record for 0xb6ed202c was not found (block_size=16)
FAIL: postprocess_test

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