[413] in NetBSD-Development
TeX, LaTeX and friends
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Sun Jan 15 23:55:34 1995
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 23:55:11 EST
First of all the good news: I have built TeX (including MetaFont,
LaTeX 2e and LaTeX 2.09 [the one on Athena]) for NetBSD, Solaris,
Ultrix and AIX platorms. There are currently script wrappers in the
SIPB locker named "tex.new", "latex.new" and "latex2e" that should
invoke the binaries correctly, so you should be able to check them out
as soon as the locker is released (there was a bug in the old script).
So please test them! Any problems should be reported to either
"bug-sipb" or "bug-bert".
(In case you care, /afs/sipb/project/tex-install contains everything
that should eventually go into the sipb locker.)
I haven't gotten around to updating the Linux build yet, mostly
because I can't log into Quiche remotely, but I'll deal with it RSN.
--bert
P.S.
A few NetBSD specific things:
1) "tex" and "latex" in the SIPB locker will run TeX and LaTeX 2.09,
respectively. (LaTeX 2e is, unsurprisingly enough, "latex2e".)
2) NetBSD doesn't have /usr/athena/lib/tex/{fonts,macros} installed.
It would be nice to be able to have a complete copy of these
directories in the TeX installation, but I had to abolish that
concept to be able to install everything else in
project.tex-install, which only has a 70M quota. Installing all
that stuff in the SIPB locker is Right Out Of The Question (tm).
Therefore, the installation currently uses two well-placed
symlinks to
/afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4m_53/srvd.77/usr/athena/lib/tex/{fonts,macros}
I realize this is unthinkably ugly, but this is the best working
solution I could think of.
