[tex-live] Technical showstoppers for TL2003

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Sep 15 21:10:41 CEST 2003


At 13:39 15/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:

> > Can someone summarize all the discussion in terms of "do we need to
> > recompile all the TeX binaries or not"? if we do, I find it hard to
> > see how TeX Live can conceivably meet deadlines.
>
>The most simple solution up to now is to add 2 lines in texmfmp.c to say
>that if no .tcx file has been specified, then we use cp8bit.tcx
>(possibly renamed to default.tcx). And yes, we need to recompile
>everything in texk/web2c/.

sounds reasonable to me (i suppose that all those other tcx files are 8 bit 
ok?)

Hans

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