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Tell GNU Emacs to go into -*- Mode: Text -*-
Date: Tue Jan 15 19:35:30 1991
TeX 3.1 and Metafont 2.7
for the
Atari ST.
This is the README for the C sources.
This archive contains C sources, which were generated from the WEB and
the WEB2C sources version 5.8a, which Karl Berry announced and
released in a TeXhax digest, which appeared on my news site during
November 1990. I make them available upon special request. I also only
provide the sources for TeX and Metafont and NOT for the other utility
programs.
The WEB sources were converted on my Un*x box at work with the
constant MAXLINES in file src-5.8a/web2c/splitup.c set to 1000.
This conversion process produced C source files with an average size
of about 30 k.
The C sources compiled without any major problems with GNU-C v1.37.1
and v1.38. Exceptions are listed below.
Before I continue, let me shortly decribe the configuration of my ST.
The machine is equipped with 2.5 meg memory. I've installed a 192 k
ramdisk and a 200 k disk cache plus some auto folder programs. It's
fair to say, that about 1/2 meg is lost to these programs. All
temporary file are created in the ram disk.
All TeX and Metafont C source files, except 3, could be compiled with
this configuration. The following three files needed special
attention, before they would compile.
* itex.c
When compiled with '-DINITEX' my ram disk would overflow while
writing the temporary assembler file. Changing the 'TEMP'
environment variable to a partition with enough free blocks
circumvented this problem.
* tex6.c
To compile this file with the default 'CFLAGS' I had to strip my
auto folder to the bare minimum to get maximum memory. I also had to
compile the file by hand without the control of the 'make' utility.
The reason, that the compilation of this file takes so much memory
is the number of getc() functions calls (93). By default 'stdio.h'
is setup to include the getc() routine as inline code. You can
reduce the memory usage by compiling this file with the additional
option '-D__NO_INLINE__'. With this defined this file also compiled
with the default auto folder.
* mf9.c
The same restrictions as mentioned with 'tex6.c' apply to this file,
except that you CAN'T reduce the memory requirements. The auto
folder MUST be stripped to the bare minimum. There is NO way do
decrease memory usage by giving some additional option. So, you are
out of luck, when have only 2 megs.
Also, if possible use a 'make' utility with a small memory usage. With
GNU-Make v3.58 there is more than one file, which can't be compiled
under the control of the makefile, because the compiler reports
'Virtual memory exhausted'.
It should be possible to generate new TeX or Metafont versions with
different internal buffer sizes by changing the respective contants in
'texd.h' or 'mfd.h', but I didn't test this. I alway regenerated the C
files from the WEB sources, when I changed a constant.
The general directory structure for the sources is as follows (the '/'
in the first column marks a directory):
defaults.h
site.h
/ common/common.h
/extra.c
/extra.h
/fileio.c
/fileio.h
/main.c
/makefile
/texmf.c
/texmf.h
/ mf/coerce.h
/fixcoerc.h
/imf.c
/makefile
/memory.h
/mf.poo
/mf0.c
....
/mf18.c
/mfd.h
/ mf/mfwindow/hp2627.c
/makefile
/sun.c
/tek.c
/uniterm.c
/x10.c
/x11-xlib.c
/x11-xt.c
/x11.c
/ tex/coerce.h
/fixcoerc.h
/itex.c
/makefile
/memory.h
/tex.poo
/tex0.c
....
/tex16.c
/texd.h
The archive for the TeX sources contains the following files:
- readme.src
- site.h
- defaults.h
- texsrc.lzh files to go into the tex directory
- common.lzh " " " common directory
The archive for the Metafont sources contains the following files:
- readme.src
- site.h
- defaults.h
- mfsrc.lzh files to go into the tex directory
- mfwindow.lzh " " " mf/mfwindow directory
- common.lzh " " " common directory
The files readme.src, site.h, defaults.h and common.lzh are duplicated
for convinience.
--
Regards
Frank Ridderbusch
Email:
ridderbusch.kd@nixdorf.com (Amerika (North & South))
ridderbusch.kd@sni.de (Rest of World)
Snail:
Frank Ridderbusch
Sander Str. 17
W-4790 Paderborn
Germany