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To: bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: m68k-sony-newsos build
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Feb 1995 10:22:53 EST."
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:31:40 -0500
From: Peter Whaite <peta@Whippet.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
As so many others have done, Robert Chassell does too:
>
> As others will probably tell you, the second half of your problems
> were because you did not have the library files installed in a way
> that the tex and mf programs could find them. ...
> ...
>
> There has been much debate over exactly how extensive the results
> should be when you just "go for it" and type 'configure && make';
> everyone has their own opinion.
>
> Ha! My expectation was that the safest, most likely to succeed
> procedure was to `just go for it'. My presumption was that every
> thing was set up in the `usual' places and that by `just going for it'
> I would cause the *least* confusion or trouble. False expectation!
Hear, hear!
I've already said my piece about this, and can only agree with the rest of the
comments in Robert's message.
It just keeps coming back, both here and on comp.text.tex.
There *is* a problem.