[tex-live] Two fixes

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Wed Sep 7 16:10:31 CEST 2005


On Sep 7, 2005, at 15:37, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> Hi Gerben,
>
> "GW" == Gerben Wierda writes:
>
>  GW> 	please call "simpdftex format inputfile"
>
>  GW> instead. Later these can be removed and the clutter again
>  GW> diminished. I am thinking about when to make this change. Is now
>  GW> a good moment? Then we can remove the altpdf* copies next year
>  GW> altogether.
>
> i see your today's change:
>
> Change 7973 by gerben at gwtex.tl2004 on 2005/09/07 11:44:18
>
>         Forgot one change from altpdftex to simpdftex
>
> Affected files ...
>
> ... //depot/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/texlive/Makefile.in#22 
> edit
>
> Differences ...
>
> ==== //depot/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/texlive/Makefile.in#22 
> (text) ====
>
> 27c27
> <         $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) $(srcdir)/altpdftex $(scriptdir)/$$s; \
> ---
>>         $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) $(srcdir)/simpdftex $(scriptdir)/$$s; \
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) did you decide not to show the message like this:
>   please call "simpdftex format inputfile"

Yes. The message is adapted from the name of the called deprecated 
script. If you call altpdflatex you get "simpdftex latex input" and if 
you call altpdftex you get "simpdftex tex input". The message is a bit 
larger and empty lines before and after to facilitate finding it in the 
log window of front ends.

>
> 2) why you're using
>
> $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) $(srcdir)/simpdftex $(scriptdir)/$$s; \
>
>   but not
>
> ln -s simpdftex $(scriptdir)/$$s;

I would be happy to use symlinks (btw I did not originally edit this, I 
just kept it as it was. I think Karl originally made the change?) but I 
guess this would not work everywhere. I have no idea. Symlinks are fine 
afaic.

G



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