Re: teTeX on HURD (Was: My Hurd speaks PostScript)
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.
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