[5650] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Neither Latex NOR Xdvi work for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Mon Nov 20 00:50:37 1995
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jered@mit.edu's message of 19 Nov 1995 (21:33:22 EST).
<199511200233.VAA10978@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:49:59 EST
> Latex doesn't work for Linux. I've explained that one before, it
> doesn't find it's default format file.
I've tried to reproduce this problem on squeamish, and it worked for
me. I suspect your problem may have something to do with either your
environment variables or vorlon's local configuration.
> Xdvi in the sipb locker ALSO doesn't work. It complains about fonts:
> athena% xdvi design.dvi
> Can't find font cmtt12.
> Can't find font cmbx12.
> Can't find font cmbx12.
> Can't find font cmr12.
> Can't find font cmr17.
> Can't find font cmtt10.
> Can't find font cmsy10.
> Can't find font cmr10.
> xdvi: Not all pixel files were found
For some reason, the version installed for linux was referencing
/usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts, despite the fact that the Imakefile was set
up to do things correctly. (Yay strace. Not.) This was changed a
Long Time Ago, and I don't really remember why it wouldn't have been
built and installed correctly for Linux.
> SIPB is a 'production' locker...you'd think people would test things
> before releasing them.
SIPB is a volunteer organization... you'd think people would try to be
polite to each other every once in a while. You can make snide
remarks all you want, Jered, but neither of these binaries has changed
in more than a year, and I couldn't reproduce the LaTeX problem you
complained about on a Linux machine I had access to. Making sweeping
accusations is counterproductive because it pisses people off.
> Could someone who knows the internals of these beasts please fix them.
I have rebuilt xdvi for Linux. Unless I hear a request for this from
someone other than Jered, I will be "testing" it for a week or so.
--bert
who really could use a [RodeoDrive] break sometime around now
