diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 2b423cd0b0..a24a35127b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>February 15th, 2014</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - add instructions to build asymptote within TeX Live.
+          This completes the current work (i.e. everything except xindy) for
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4647">#4647</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[fernando] - Update to cups-filters 1.0.45. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4694">#4694</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
index 6966d4a0fc..d0ba2b5621 100644
--- a/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
+++ b/pst/typesetting/texlive.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/texlive-&texlive-version;-source-fix_asymptote-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TeX Live Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
@@ -129,10 +139,16 @@
     what was originally installed.</para>
 
     <para>At the moment, these instructions do not rebuild
-    <application>asy</application> and <application>xindy</application> which were
-    installed by the binary installer.</para> <!-- FIXME -->
+    <application>xindy</application> which was installed by the binary installer.
+    If you wish to rebuild that, please consult
+    <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4647">#4647</ulink>. Asy and the rest of
+    asymptote is by default not rebuilt, so we have to separately run
+    <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command> in its directory.
+    </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-fix_asymptote-1.patch &amp;&amp;
+
+mkdir texlive-build &amp;&amp;
 cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;
 
 ../configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/2013 \
@@ -158,14 +174,30 @@ cd texlive-build    &amp;&amp;
              --with-system-pixman \
              --with-system-zlib \
              --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &amp;&amp;
-make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.</para>
+pushd ../utils/asymptote &amp;&amp;
+echo "ac_cv_lib_m_sqrt=yes" >config.cache &amp;&amp;
+echo "ac_cv_lib_z_deflate=yes" >>config.cache &amp;&amp;
+./configure LIBS="-ltirpc "  --prefix=/opt/texlive/2013/ \
+ --bindir=/opt/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux \
+ --enable-texlive-build \
+ --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist \
+ --infodir=/opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info/ \
+ --mandir=/opt/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man \
+ --cache-file=config.cache &amp;&amp;
+popd &amp;&amp;
+
+make &amp;&amp;
+make -C ../utils/asymptote</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make -k chec &amp;&amp;
+    make -C utils/asymptote checkk</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
     user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput role="root">make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput role="root">make install &amp;&amp;
+make -C ../utils/asymptote install</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -210,7 +242,18 @@ make</userinput></screen>
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      <option>--without-x</option>: use this if you do not have Xorg installed.
+      <parameter>echo "ac_cv_lib_m_sqrt=yes" ... LIBS="-ltirpc " &gt;config.cache,
+      ... --cache-file=config.cache</parameter> : The configure scripts in
+      <application>TeX Live</application> are uncommon. Asymptote not only has to
+      be separately configured and built, the configure script fails to find the
+      shared <filename class="libraryfile">libtirpc.so</filename>.  Passing that
+      in LIBS breaks the tests for (static) libm and (shared) libz, so we have to
+      fix things up, in much the same way as when cross-compiling.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>--without-x</option>: use this (and omit the configure and make in
+      <filename>utils/asymptote</filename> if you do not have Xorg installed.
     </para>
 
   </sect2>