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- Here is the procedure for getting things running.
-
- 1. Inspect the first section of `lib/c-auto.h.in', and edit the file if
- necessary.
-
- 2. Edit `Makefile.in' if you want to make changes that will have effect
- across different runs of `configure'.
-
- 3. Do `sh configure' (or otherwise arrange for `configure' to be run
- using the Bourne shell).
-
- You can control some of what configure does by setting environment
- variables before running. For example, configure normally uses gcc
- if you have it, otherwise cc; but if the environment variable `CC' is
- set, its value will be used. Likewise for `YACC', `LEX', and `CCLD'.
-
- You can regenerate the `configure' script with the GNU Autoconf
- distribution, available for ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu, among
- many other places. You must arrange for the macros in ./aclocal.m4
- to be seen by Autoconf.
-
- 4. Inspect `./Makefile' and `lib/c-auto.h', which `configure' creates,
- to see if configure's guesses were correct. Change anything if
- necessary; for example, if you want to optimize, change CFLAGS.
- See ./MACHINES for possibly helpful information.
-
- 5. `make triptrap' to build triptex and trapmf (and some of the other
- programs that are needed to run the tests).
-
- 6. `make run-triptrap' to run the tests. The differences (and many
- error messages) will show up on your terminal. If you have a
- question about whether the differences are OK or not, consult
- tex/TeXtrip/tripman.tex and mf/MFtrap/trapman.tex. The most common
- differences are in:
- * glue setting being rounded differently in the TeX log;
- * string space and maximum values of tables;
- * the `down4' and `right4' commands in the dvitype output;
- * the dates and times.
- All these differences are acceptable.
-
- 7. `make clean-triptrap' to get rid of the test programs and output. You
- need to do this before making the production versions, or the
- resulting TeX and Metafont will have very small memories.
-
- 8. `make' to make the working versions of the remaining programs.
-
- 9. `make formats' to make the format files you want (the variable
- `formats' in the Makefile defines the list). If you don't know what
- this means, see the section `Format files and preloading' below.
- Before doing this, the TFM and other input files must be put in the
- proper directories, and your search paths (e.g., the environment
- variables TEXINPUTS, TEXFONTS, etc., or the defaults in Makefile.in if the
- variables are unset) must look in those directories.
-
- 10. `make bases' to make the base files for Metafont that you want.
- Besides the variable `bases' in ./Makefile, you may also want to
- change the variable `localmodes'. It is also a good idea to try to
- draw something online (if you intend to support that) before
- installing Metafont, as this often fails to work right on the first
- try. See the `Running Metafont' chapter in the Metafontbook. The
- comments about search paths in #9 apply here, too.
-
- 11. `make manpages' to edit the documentation in `man' for the paths and
- constants you defined in `Makefile.in' and `c-auto.h.in'.
-
- 12. `make install-exec' to install the programs.
- `make install-formats install-bases' to install the formats/bases
- and to create links to `virtex' and `virmf' for each.
- `make install-manpages' to install the manual pages.
- Alternatively, `make install' to install everything.
-
- 13. There are several ``cleaning'' targets:
- `mostlyclean' if you intend to compile on another
- architecture. Since the .c files are intended to be portable,
- they are not removed. If the lex/flex situation is going to be
- different on the next machine, also rm web2c/lex.yy.c.
- `clean' to remove everything that is normally created by compiling.
- `distclean' to remove everything that would not be in a distribution.
- `realclean' to remove everything that the Makefiles can rebuild.
- `extraclean' to remove `distclean' files plus other junk files.
-
- If you wish to make just TeX or Metafont, the top-level Makefile has
- targets named `TeX' and `MF' which make {ini,vir}{tex,mf}, and nothing
- else. Similarly, if you don't want to (or can't) run both the trip and
- trap tests, `Makefile' has targets `run-trip' and `run-trap'.
-
- If you wish to make just the C files (perhaps because you want to take
- them to another system), the top-level Makefile has a target `c-sources'.
-
- If you are installing TeX for the first time, the files here are not
- nearly enough. You will also need all the TeX and Metafont macro files,
- and the font sources. (Not to mention drivers for your output devices.)
- All of these things are part of the Unix TeX distribution, which you can
- order from the University of Washington (send email to
- elisabet@u.washington.edu). The web2c distribution itself originates
- from ftp.cs.umb.edu. See the file `FTP' for information on where to
- retrieve a minimal TeX setup electronically.
-
- The host labrea.stanford.edu is the ultimate source for those files
- still maintained by Knuth (for example, plain.tex). Another ftp site
- with a large collection (including copies of what is on labrea) is
- ftp.tex.ac.uk. The Aston archive in England makes things available by
- email; the address is texserver@tex.aston.ac.uk.
-