On Monday 16 June 2008 09:31:50 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > Owen Cook wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:22:37AM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > >> On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:38:32 pm Gregory Pittman wrote: > >>> Roger wrote: > >>>>> I set up a new partition with Slackware 12.1 and for may > >>>>> first task downloaded the latest stable version. It compiled > >>>>> OK but on "make install" it blew up because it couldn't find > >>>>> DrawGrid.py. That file did not exist in 1.3.3.11 either. > >>>>> > >>>>> Did I get a bad download or is there something wrong with the > >>>>> distro? > >>>> > >>>> I believe I saw Drawgrid.py in the svn so it's probably part > >>>> of the distro. Roger > >>> > >>> Drawgrid.py has come and gone in the distro. Currently it's not > >>> part of svn. > >> > >> Nevertheless 1.3.3.12 is a stable release. It won't install > >> because of this missing file. Would it be OK to just set up a > >> dummy file of that name? > >> > >> BTW the name sought was DrawGrid.py. On my Linux system the > >> captialization is significant. > > > > A dummy file should be OK, try it, all you can get is another > > error message. > > > > However, there has to be something wrong because it simply should > > not look for it. > > > > But as I haven't downloaded it, and tried to install it, I can't > > vouch for the above statement > > This kludge should work, but it might be best to wipe out your > 1.3.3.12 and download again. If you're using svn, it is now > 1.3.3.13svn. > > Greg > >
Is 1.3.3.12 considered stable? Some of the web pages indicate 1.3.3.11 as the latest stable version. I am confused (as usual.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
