"More POSIX conforming than POSIX requires" would seem to be an oxymoron, if not a paradox. And POSIX explicitly allows "echo -n".
Does the builtin echo in sh have any way to suppress a newline? Maybe the venerable "\c"? On 8/31/09, Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Ben Abbott wrote: >> I followed the instructions to switch to snow leopard. I've deleted > [] >> Default Command: Latex >> Default Script: Tex + DVI >> Tex: altpdflatex >> Latex: altpdflatex > > Contemporary versions of tex use simpdftex instead of altpdftex, whose > development stopped ca 2002. > >> When I typeset, I get ... >> >> ### This is /sw/bin/altpdflatex, Version $Revision: 2.14 $ >> ### /sw/bin/latex test.tex >> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) >> entering extended mode > [] >> ### /sw/bin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdflatex.53342/-n test.ps - >> n test.dvi >> /sw/bin/dvips: ! Bad number of pages option (-n). > [] >> Any ideas as to what happened to break TeXShop? > > This should have been broken on Leopard already. The problem is that > altpdftex uses "echo -n" inside a sh script, and Apple, trying to be > more POSIX conforming than POSIX requires, removed the "-n" flag from > the echo command that is executed by /bin/sh. > > A workaround is to edit the /sw/bin/altpdftex script by hand and to > replace the first line > > #!/bin/sh > > by > > #!/bin/bash > > or, as simpdftex did, replace both occurrences of "echo -n" by > "/bin/echo -n". > > -- > Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Sent from my mobile device Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
