[tex-live] XeTeX 0.997 into TeXLive

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Jonathan Kew writes:
 > However, it sounds like the configure scripts are undergoing some  
 > changes, so I don't know if the overall process works right now.

Here is a message forwarded by Martin to the pdftex mailing list:

 | ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 | From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>
 | Date: 31.01.2008 11:00
 | Subject: Re: TeXlive autoconf 2.13 -> 2.59++ --- don't use reautoconf
 | To: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
 | Cc: martin at oneiros.de
 | 
 | On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Karl Berry wrote:
 | 
 | > I've found that autoreconf has the undesirable effect of
 | > sometimes copying older files on top of newer ones, so I don't
 | > use it.  Instead I run aclocal && autoheader && automake &&
 | > autoconf && configure ...
 | >
 | > For TL, since some packages use automake and others don't, things get
 | > rather more complicated.  Perhaps reautoconf could take a --automake
 | > option to optionally rerun automake (right now it never does).
 | 
 | IMPORTANT:
 | 
 | For the moment the reautoconf script is broken, so no one should use it.
 | I'll update this once the acold=>acnew transition is (more or less)
 | complete.
 | 
 | Regards         Peter
 

Regards,
  Reinhard

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