Re: 2.99.5 release

ezra peisach <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:37:53 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Compiles aok under Irix 6.5.20m - using native compilers and GNUmake.
(system make bombs out in texk somewhere)...

Simple tests: xdvi, latex, mpost, pdflatex appears to work.

Some comments: 

Suggestion - in the INSTALL file - it says to type "ls | wc -l" - I
get 27. Perhaps "ls -1 | wc -l" would be more appropriate to confirm
the number of binaries.

I notice that when I am setting paper types in texconfig - it is
realtively fast (xdvi, dvips) until I set the paper type in
PDFTEX. This forces a rebuild of the formats... Looks like most of
them.... (this is even though I leave it set to the default
pattern). It is not clear to me why setting the paper size for pdftex
rebuilds all the formats (including latex).  Perhaps the menu item
should indicate "tex configuration" instead of "pdftex". (I notice
that latex is a symlink to pdfetex - so it makes sense that all
formates are rebuilt).

Ezra