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1 Introduction
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This manual (dated April 2018) corresponds to the TeX Live 2018 release.

   This manual is aimed at system installers and programmers, and
focuses on how to configure, build, and develop the TeX Live (TL)
sources.  It is also available as plain text files in the source tree:
'source/README.*'.

   The 'source/README' file in the TL source tree provides the
maximally-terse information for doing a build, and portability
information for different systems, along with
'source/doc/README.solaris'.

   For information on acquiring the TL sources, see
<http://tug.org/texlive/svn>.

   This manual does not duplicate the information found in other TL
documentation resources, such as:

   * The TeX Live web pages: <http://tug.org/texlive>.

   * The web page describing how to build the binaries which are
     distributed with TeX Live: <http://tug.org/texlive/build.html>.

   * The TeX Live user manual: <http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html>, or run
     'texdoc texlive'.

   * Other TeX-related Texinfo manuals (Note: (web2c), Note:
     (kpathsea), etc.): <http://tug.org/texinfohtml/>, or check the
     'TeX' category in the GNU Info system.

   * Package documentation:
     <http://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/doc.html>, or the 'doc.html'
     file at the top level of the installed TL.

   As an exception, the full documentation for 'install-tl' and 'tlmgr'
is included here, just because it is convenient to do so.  The same text
is available online (linked from <http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html>, or
by invoking the program with '--help' (or look at the end of the
source).