new binaries for TL5
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:27:44 +0000 (GMT)
Kaja P. Christiansen writes:
> As agreed with Sebastian, I had a look at making the TL5 binaries
> for Solaris, HP-UX, SGI and Linux (available platforms at Computer
> Science Department here).
can you make some Linux binaries available to compare with mine?
> In short, programs compile cleanly under Solaris7, while HPUX and SGI
> *take time* and several hand-made adjustments. I'd be glad to provide
> a list of encountered problems.
please do!!! I'd like to fix anything I can. not least because I am
going to ask you to repeat the exercise next week.
> Sun SunOS 5.7 /texlive/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> HPUX HP-UX 10.20 /texlive/bin/hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
> SGI IRIX64 6.5 /texlive/bin/mips-sgi-irix6.5
great, many thanks
> - HPUX and SGI: texinfo didn't build. relevant binaries are based on
> the original texinfo-4.0 from gnu distribution.
can you talk to Fabrice when he comes back from Dante?
> - SGI: freetype didn't build, is missing.
can you tell me where it failed?
> - directory texmf-local (current TEXMFLOCAL) should be present for
> 'texconfig init', otherwise texconfig crashes looking for config.ps file.
> (there is texmf-localconfig, but it doesn't seem to be used for anything).
um. i had better check that
sebastian