My Hurd speaks PostScript
Hello All,
A week or so ago I got stuck when building the Hurd, there was a
failure in the doc directory when it tried texi2dvi. Marcus suggested
that I try to build tetex from source, and then post in the patches.
This is the first tar ball for me that is totally stable. I just kept
adding packages until the thing built and worked.
It has a script called klibtool that pre-dates libtool. I intend to
change it so that it calls libtool. I get a few discrepencies when I
build libtool. The binary debhelper package was short of perl scripts
on both Debian and Hurd; but not the same ones, so some trading took
place.
The current source tries to build everything so I had to get the X
headers and libraries so that it would make xdvi. Also it needs xlib,
xlib-dev and libpng; but though these were installed it still made its
own version. There is also a call to a command line getopt.
The binary stuff for Hurd is:
tetex-bin and tetex-dev version 0.9.9981113-2.deb
The source built:
tetex-lib tetex-bin and tetex-dev version 1.0.6-1_hurd-i386.deb
The fonts and stuff go in /usr/share; but the binaries go in /bin. I
would prefer to keep TeX out of the root partition, so would prefer
either /usr/lib/bin and /usr/local/lib/texmf as in UNIX, ot
/usr/share/bin and /usr/share/texmf. This way you can mount another
partition, and keep the root partition clean.
Do you want me to work on this package, if there is nobody else? I do
not know Debian Hurd rules yet but can soon learn.
Chris
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