Contents
Installed Programs:
tex2xindy, texindy, xindy
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directory:
$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/xindy
xindy-2.5.1
Introduction to xindy
Xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, and SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML) that process some kind of text and generate indexing information.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://tug.ctan.org/support/xindy/base/xindy-2.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 221acfeeb0f6f8388f89a59c56491041
Download size: 506 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Required Additional Downloads
Xindy Dependencies
Required
Installation of xindy
Install xindy by running the following commands:
export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &&
sed -i "s/ grep -v '^;'/ awk NF/" make-rules/inputenc/Makefile.in &&
sed -i 's%\(indexentry\)%\1\\%' make-rules/inputenc/make-inp-rules.pl &&
patch -Np1 -i ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-2.patch &&
./configure --prefix=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX \
--bindir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/bin/$TEXARCH \
--datarootdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX \
--includedir=/usr/include \
--libdir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist \
--mandir=$TEXLIVE_PREFIX/texmf-dist/doc/man &&
make LC_ALL=POSIXThis package does not have a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
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.
sed -i 's%\(indexentry\)%\1\\%' ...: A regexp
contains indexentry{ - perl has warned about the
unescaped left brace for some time and now treats it as illegal.
Change it to indexentry\{, doubling the backslash
for sed.
patch -Np1 -i ../xindy-2.5.1-upstream_fixes-2.patch: Xindy is now maintained at CTAN. This patch updates the source with some of the changes made there (but ignoring changes which were only made to allow for spaces in pathnames and some trivial recent changes).
--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-20230313 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.