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From: Andreas Schott <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Bugs in Makefile.in and configure(.in)
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>   Furthermore a hint. If you unpack the tar-files into three different
>   parallel subdirectories web2c-6.0, dvipsk-5.526a and xdvik-1.5, you
>   can create everything under web2c-6.0 if you establish the following
>   two links in web2c-6.0:
>     ln -s ../dvipsk-5.526a/dvipsk dvipsk
>     ln -s ../xdvik-1.5/xdvik xdvik
>
> I tried this (before reading this mail), and it doesn't quite work.
> The problem is that both dvipsk-5.526a and xdvik-1.5 have their
> own independent copies of kpathsea.  At a certain point after the first
> successful compilation of kpathsea.a, each of the parallel
> dvips web2c or xdvi Makefiles is going to ask for dependencies
> in kpathsea via a relative path ../kpathsea.  At least two out of three
> such trials will then drop into a kpathsea that has not been configured.

For me the link works fine, because ../kpathsea after a cd web2c-6.0/dvipsk
refers to web2c-6.0/kpathsea. If this is not the case for you, you should
move the two directories dvipsk and xdvik.

Andreas.