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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sun May 25 01:06:43 1997
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 01:06:11 -0400
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
It turns out that TeX from the 8.1 source tree builds under Linux.
(The 8.0 source tree gave me trouble.) Even though TeX is a standard
RedHat package, it makes sense for TeX to be part of Linux-Athena.
(This way, people can get the same version of TeX on a Linux Athena
workstation as on a "real" Athena workstation, they can use the same
environment variables, they can save a lot of space on their local
drives by running it off the system packs, etc. Also, it's nice to
have TeX in sipb-athena for NetBSD and HP/UX.)
So, I've done the following:
- I imported the Athena 8.1 TeX sources into the sipb-athena locker.
- I removed all "tetex" related RPMs from cutter-john.
- I built and installed Athena TeX on cutter-john.
- I created a "tex-ath" spec file in /mit/linux/packages/RedHat/SPECS.
- When I'm convinced the spec file is correct, I'll make an RPM and
put it in /mit/linux/packages/RedHat/RPMS.
- I will install it on the system packs real soon now.
Note that TeX installs lots of fonts, so the tex-ath RPM will be much
larger than all the other Athena RPMs put together. Oh well.
Something should probably happen to make this available when people
install from small-gods.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
