[tex-live] HPUX 10.20 compilations problems

Thomas Esser te@dbs.uni-hannover.de
Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:51:34 +0200


> > http://home.imf.au.dk/daleif/world071002.log
> > 
> > It looks like it crashes because of a cp error?!?!?

Yes and this is most likely a problem with the make program that you use.
You can try to change in TeX/texk/web2c/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.mk the two
rules (caution: use a tab, not spaces):

$(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.h: $(srcdir)/pdftexdir/pdftex.h
	cp -f $< $@

$(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.defines: $(srcdir)/pdftexdir/pdftex.defines
	cp -f $< $@

to:

$(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.h: $(srcdir)/pdftexdir/pdftex.h
	cp -f $< $(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.h

$(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.defines: $(srcdir)/pdftexdir/pdftex.defines
	cp -f $< $(srcdir)/pdfetexdir/pdfetex.defines

or try GNU make.

> hmm, that looks like our mistake, passing -Bstatic to a compiler than
> cant handle it.

Well, this just gives a warning, no error message... make breaks on
expanding 

Thomas