Bug#130309: tetex-bin: libwww configure script won't regenerate from configure.in
reassign 130309 src:texlive-bin
tags 130309 + wontfix
stop
On 28.11.10 Theo Markettos (theo@markettos.org.uk) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:11:41PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
No progress here, sorry! I'm just checking if the remaining bugs
sitting on tetex-bin apply to texlive too.
> > I'm sorry! We didn't do anything for this bug in the last years.
> >
> > Could you try if the bug is still existent in the TL version of
> > Debian unstable (2009) or describe how we can test it ourself? I
> > wouldn't like to forward a bug, which has been fixed already.
>
> Hmmm... this bug has been swapped out my head for some time. He's what I
> remember.
>
> I was trying to cross compile teTeX[1]. The cross-compile nature
> of it wasn't so relevant to this bug, other than it got in horrible
> knots. For example it builds web2c then tries to run it. But it
> builds it with the crosscompiler and so falls over when the
> resulting executable can't be run on the build system.
>
Ahh, yes of course! This is at least one thing, which hurts us. The
build process generates ctangle and cweave and then uses these tools
to generate further source code. Until this hasn't changed TL can't
be cross-compiled.
Unfortunately this hasn't changed in the last years and we won't fix
it for Debian. I'll ask upstream, but I'm pretty sure they won't
change it. For now I tag the bug wontfix and reassign it to the
appropriate TL package.
Thanks,
Hilmar
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