[tex-live] binaries "unification"

[Vladimir Volovich]

Hi!

i've made a few "unifying" changes in binaries:

1) the following files were regular scripts, instead of symlinks to
   "texexec":

  alpha-linux/fdf2tex
  alpha-linux/pdfcrop
  powerpc-darwin6.8/mptopdf
  powerpc-darwin6.8/thumbpdf

   I've make them symlinks to "texexec" as in all other architectures.

2) Added missing symlinks (which are present in all other
   architectures and are generated by build, but nevertheless were
   not submitted):

  i386-freebsd4.10/fdf2tex
  powerpc-darwin6.8/fdf2tex
  sparc-solaris2.7/fdf2tex

3) deleted x86_64-linux/xdvi-xaw.bin

   x86_64-linux contained both xdvi-motif.bin and xdvi-xaw.bin
   xdvi-motif.bin was recently updated, while xdvi-xaw.bin was left
   from older build.
   (And "xdvi" script in x86_64-linux uses xdvi-motif.bin)

Now, all unix binary directories contain the same set of files
(modulo xdvi-xaw.bin or xdvi-motif.bin).

The ONLY exception is the powerpc-darwin6.8 directory. It differs from
other unix directories in the following ways:

1) it contains the following additional copies of altpdf* script which
   are not present in other architectures (and are not generated by
   standard build):

  altpdfcont-de
  altpdfcont-en
  altpdfcont-nl
  altpdflambda
  altpdfomega

2) it lacks the file

  altpdfcontext

   which is present in all other directories (and is generated by
   standard build)

3) it contains the ttf2tex script (from CTAN:support/ttf2tex ?)

My questions are:

1) could we please use the same set of altpdf* scripts everywhere?

2) Gerben, could you please consider getting rid of this bunch of
   scripts (which are copies of each other) in favor of having only
   one script named "altpdf", which will accept the "engine" as it's
   first argument? E.g. instead of

  altpdflambda [options and parameters]

   you would use

  altpdf lambda [options and parameters]

   and similar for all other altpdf* scripts.

   That will allow to avoid silly copies of the same script and having
   to add/remove the new altpdf* scripts once and for all.

3) could we please either remove powerpc-darwin6.8/ttf2tex or add it
   to all other unix directories?

Best,
v.