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Subject: web2c bugs(?)
To: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:45:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Ladies & Gentlemen:
I have recently attempted to build TeX, metafont, etc. on my machine, and
have run into a few problems I'd like to ask you about. Fist of all, some
info: I am using an HP 9000 model 712/80 running HP-UX A.09.03. I am
using GNU's gcc version 2.6.0, and am running under HP-VUE, a bastardized
version of Motif.
So. I downloaded a set of the web2c files (version 6.1), and attempted to
begin making them, following your instruction files to the letter. First,
I found a problem where gcc choked on two files:
1) kpathsea/c-unistd.h: line 26 had to be changed from
#if HAVE_UNISTD_H
to
#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
in order for it to compile correctly.
2) kpathsea/c-std.h: line 39 had to be changed from
#if HAVE_STDLIB_H
to
#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
in order for it to compile correctly.
I have subsequently been halted by the MFwindow program, which would like
to have the Xt and/or Xlib libraries in order to compile. Unfortunately,
since I am running under HP-VUE, I don't have access to the standard Xlib.h
etc. files. Since I am not responsible for system administration at this
site, I have no control over what include files are/are not on this
machine. I have requested my system administrator to make the files
available to me, but he is a very busy man, and has not been able to fill
my request. So my question is this: is there any way I can build a non-
X11-using version of metafont? I know that TeX/metafont can run without
X11 support, because I use them via telnet consistently. So how do I get
a local build to just ignore the X11 support? I tried commenting out all
the window mode #ifdefs in web2c/lib/c-auto.h, but that doesn't solve a
thing, since the web2c/configure script expects SOME window system (i.e. there
is no default path for text-only mode that *I* can find). I'd appreciate
any pointers you can give me.
As I mentioned, I don't have root priveleges on this machine, so I cannot
just install the precompiled binaries, either, since they look in
/usr/local/* for files which aren't there.
Thanks for your help!
Jason L. Carter
Computer Engineer
Motorola, Inc.
Plantation, FL