[Slackbuilds-users] TeX Live 2013

[David Woodfall]

On (11/11/13 12:50), Dave Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
>On (07/11/13 15:23), Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> put forth the proposition:
>>For those of you on Slackware -current (soon to be 14.1) who are
>>also LaTex users, I need some testing of TeX Live 2013.
>>
>>To make a long story short, Edd Barrett over at OpenBSD wrote
>>a python utility (texscythe) to parse the texlive package db
>>and generate packaging lists, so I made a build for it (it's
>>in the SBo repo for 14.1, currently git master) and worked up
>>a short script (see texscythe/contrib/ dir) to generate a
>>texmf subset with full functionality (I hope).  I'm attaching
>>the resulting texlive.tar.gz build script and associated files;
>>you'll just need to download the sources from the .info file.
>>
>>Please verify that the resulting texlive package will work for
>>some representative tex files you have.  It seems to work for
>>mine, but I don't have anything too extravagant here.
>>
>>If you're interested in seeing the git commit, it's here, but
>>note that the branch it's in will disappear once texlive-2013
>>gets merged to master:
>>http://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/commit/?h=texlive-2013&id=251f5091f2fdcce8abb058b1623144470bfe47b3
>>
>>-RW
>
>Rob,
>
>I seem to be having a problem with biblatex. If I use it, with or 
>without options I always get this error:
>
>http://www.r0t.co.uk/paste/p/tGsyzK81.html
>
>I also found a couple of problems with texcount - I fixed one problem, 
>but I keep getting a warning that it can't read the package list. This 
>was the first error:
>
>"length() used on %warnings (did you mean "scalar(keys %warnings)"?) at
>/usr/bin/texcount line 2221."
>
>Luckily, the fix is exactly that. The second warning looks like a bit more of a problem:
>
>"!!!  Could not recognise package list, ignoring it instead.  !!!"

Fixed. Seems a custom package had a hyphen in the name and this was
breaking texcount.

>Googling for the biblatex error didn't find anything useful yet. This is for an assignment that I wrote earlier this year and built fine with the previous texlive.
>
>Dave