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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 95 16:57:21 EST
From: braams@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU (Bastiaan J. Braams)
Message-Id: <9502262157.AA10214@MFDD2.CIMS.NYU.EDU>
To: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: don't understand MakeTeXPK
I am installing TeX/MF and don't understand the role of the program
MakeTeXPK. Please clarify.
In the README in /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src it is said:
If you want a Makefile to generate bitmap fonts in advance, instead of
generating them on the fly with MakeTeXPK, take a look at Makefile.gf in
this directory.
Well, *should* I want to generate bitmap fonts in advance? If so, which
bitmap fonts? And if not, what should be done instead?
The programs that I am installing are web2c-6.1, dvipsk-5.58f and
xdvik-18f, with patches web2c.alloca.help and web2c-kpathsea-2.6.help.
The machine is an SGI Power Onyx running IRIX64 6.0.1. The paths are the
defaults, and I installed the texmf directory from lib-6.9 in /usr/local.
For compilation I used "cc -32" (32 bit pointers), which should make this
IRIX64 behave rather like an IRIX5.3 machine. It was found necessary to
set
#define NO_FOIL_X_WCHAR_T
in the file kpathsea-2.6/web2c/lib/c-auto.h; with that everything seemed
to make and install well.
Here is the source of my confusion. Following the installation procedure,
which appeared to have been successful, I revert to being a normal user,
go into some junk directory, and type `tex foo.tex'. As hoped, I acquire
a file `foo.dvi'. Then I type `dvips foo.dvi'. Now the system starts
running MakeTeXMF, like this:
This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1995.02.26:1345' -> |lpr
kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmr10 720 600 magstep\(1.0\) ljfour
/usr/local/bin/MakeTeXPK: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=magstep(1.0); scrollmode; input cmr10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1)
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/cmr10.mf
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/cmbase.mf)
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/roman.mf
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/romanu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68]
[69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83]
[ ... stuff deleted ]
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/romlig.mf [11] [12] [13] [14]
[15]) (/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/comlig.mf [34] [45] [92]
[123] [124]) ) )
Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
Output written on cmr10.720gf (128 characters, 28572 bytes).
Transcript written on cmr10.log.
Cannot create directory "/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/ljfour": Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/MakeTeXPK: Could not mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/ljfour.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
dvips: Font cmr10 not found, characters will be left blank.
[...]
What is going on here? Should I become super-user again and run MakeTeXPK
before giving the system over to users? If so, with what arguments? Or
should I change permission flags for /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk?
-- Bas Braams (braams@cims.nyu.edu)