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6 Layout and infrastructure
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The TeX Live source tree is the subtree rooted at 'Build/source' of the
complete TL distribution and contains the sources for all executables
distributed by TL, as well as 'configure' scripts and 'make' rules to
build and install them together with some of their support files.

Build system tools

Modifying infrastructure files.

Top-level directories

libs texk utils; am auxdir build-aux m4; doc extra.

Autoconf macros

TL-specific Autoconf macros.

Library modules

Handling libraries, with examples.

Program modules

Handling programs, with examples.

Extending TeX Live

Adding a new module.