Re: Cygwin-cross patch#3 for 2.96.4-1

"George N. White III" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Organization Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> FWIW, I never understood why tetex copies sources of external util and
> lib packages, in every distribution I have seen they are all disabled
> anyway (and packaged directly from upstream).  I really wonder if
> enough people are using this to justify the duplication of efforts?

Probably not, since the libs directory has a number of problems.

To be useful, the libs directory needs to provide libraries that aren't 
readily available.  TeTeX-2.96.6 uses libintl, librecode, and libreadline. 
In my experience these are less widely available than zlib and libpng.

the link in libs/howto/t1lib doesn't work.  I found:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/t1lib-5.0.2.tar.gz

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