Kapil H. Paranjape wrote: > In response to messages from Chris Lingard and Marcus Brinkmann. > > Chris wrote that he had built tetex from the 1.0.6 version for the > HURD. I too had built tetex-bin, tetex-lib and tetex-dev for the > HURD. Marcus said we should exchange notes on this. So here goes... >
Hello Kapil, Sorry, did not realise that there was a developer for TeX. Got stuck trying to build the Hurd documentation, on the Hurd, but I can do that now. If I can be of any assistance please let me know. > > > > It has a script called klibtool that pre-dates libtool. I intend to > > > change it so that it calls libtool. > > > > That's a good idea. Only the very latest libtool has the correct info for > > the Hurd. > > I didn't incorporate libtool since: > (a) I wanted to do the build with minimal changes. > (sheer laziness ...) > (b) The klibtool script said it was a modification of the > libtool scripts so I didn't want to go into those modifs. > > But I suppose I should have tried. > > > > xlib-dev and libpng; but though these were installed it still made its > > > own version. > > > > It made its own xlib? Are you sure? > Oops typo, should be zlib. > > The build depends on libpng-dev and zlibg1-dev and xlib6g-dev. I got the > former two from the debian-hurd archive and the last one from > alpha.gnu.org. > > > > There is also a call to a command line getopt. > > I don't recall any problem here. Where is this call? In debian/rules? > Or perhaps it is a call in "libtool" which I did not use. > debstd -u -m /usr/bin/debstd: getopt: command not found ---------------debstd processing for GNU/Hurd > > > The klibtool/libtool issue is definitely worth investigation. Kapil, > > did your build produce the same sonames as a Linux build? That's important. > > The library produced is libkpathsea.so.3.3.1 in both cases (linux and > hurd). Is there a more complete way of checking? In any case I will > investigate the possiblity of using klibtool. > > As far as I recall, the build completes without errors. The > installation of tetex-extra invokes the difficulty with "double > ungetc" commented on earlier in this list. > > Regards, > > Kapil. > -- > Always use PGP for privacy; finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my Public Key. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1E8EE261 1996/10/09 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Key fingerprint = CA F1 07 DD 7B FF 0E D6 82 77 19 DE FD FE 30 83 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

