[3219] in Release_Engineering
TeX is done. Now, the world...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Thu May 19 14:34:29 1994
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfields@MIT.EDU, bert@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 14:34:16 EDT
The TeX source tree is ready to be sucked over into the release tree.
It's in ~newtex/src. (I.e., attach newtex; cd /mit/tex/src)
The build works for DECs and RS6000s. I haven't tested the current
configuration (build with gcc) on the Sun, since whirlpool hates me.
Issues, etc:
* Due to something that's probably a bug in the optimizer, building
with gcc -O2 on the RS6000's causes the compiler to run out of
memory while compiling mft.c. Currently, the Sun build is set up to
use gcc -O2, but if it exhibits the same bug, you should edit the
main Imakefile and crank it down to -O1.
* The manpages haven't been edited to fully reflect the local
configuration yet.
* The build authomatically runs trip and trap, "torture tests" of TeX
and MF. These might fail, indicating that you shouldn't use the
current options to build TeX and MetaFont. If that happens, please
check your optimization options and dial again.
Any questions about that stuff are welcome. =)
[that will still hold after I go back home for the summer, too--
I will have net access]
--bert
