>|> Christian: There are several patches to libf2c in the >|> tarball. If I recall, some of them were suggested by >|> texlive developers to allow pmxab to be built on all of the >|> platforms they support. >|> >|> Why are you trying to compile Don's source using f2c? >| >|that's what I've always at new pmx releases. I just need to uncomment >|the 2 alternative calls to getargs in order perform a 2-step compile: 1) >|generation of c files 2) gcc compilation of 1). All of it done through a >|shell script working with various linux dists like fedora, ubuntu and mint >| >|Back at the pmx versions decades ago I noticed that gfortran compiled >|binaries would sometimes crash while f2c binaries turned out stable. I >|didn't experience trouble with f2c binaries until this time. >| >|A description of the f2c linux compilation method was part of older >|versions of musixtex et al docs. >| >|> If you >|> can't build pmxab using the usual ./configure and make in >|> the tarball, I am interested; otherwise, not. >| >|Yes, ./configure ... works.
Thanks. And apparently works on all the texlive platforms including OS-X. I'm sure it will work on fedora and ubuntu as well. >|But f2c and gfortran compilations are much faster. With >|gfortran I don't even need to interchange the getargs >|calls. Faster because you're using the stock libf2c instead of compiling libf2c. But if the result crashes ... If faster compilation is really important to you, you could compile and install the patched libf2c sources once and for all. That might save you ten seconds of compilation time every time there's a new release of pmx. Don is having enough trouble compiling pmxab without having to deal with libf2c issues. Best, Bob ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
