[tex-live] Build fails for FreeBSD 4.10

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr
Fri Oct 1 16:51:35 CEST 2004


> That's fine. Unfortunately, Fabrice doesn't want to spend time
> submitting his changes to mainline, and prefers to have his own
> sources; so we have no other choice than to use the official version.

First, it wouldn't be meaningful anymore. I have changed the structure in a
way that is not compatible anymore. I'll post my source tree later this
week-end for those who are curious.

Second, in the mean time I have sent Eddie the changes I applied to get a
clean compile under msvc. They are not that large but still a couple of them
are a problem.

I got warnings about unimportant stuff, some of my changes to lcdf_typetools
are about to shut up my compiler, I could have done it with the right
pragmas, matter of taste.

The most problematic issue is wrt otftotfm: Eddie hardwired the location to
SHAREDIR (macro). But this is meaningless to windows. So I changed it to use
kpathsea to locate the file. And used for that the stuff he defined. 

Ok, I put the glyphlist.txt file into texmf/fonts/type1, which is definitely
not right (but if you think a bit longer about it, it may not be a font but
closely related to it). However, there is an issue here because this file
can be found only at the location specified at compile time.

As I understand it, Eddie will consider using kpathsea to find it in a later
version.

Fabrice




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