Re: 2.99.5 release

On 2004-12-07, Thomas Esser <[email protected]> wrote:

>  
>
>>This release has again some important bugfixes (see below). As I
>>have written before: please, send me feedback, even if it all just
>>works :-)
>>    
>>
Hi Thomas:

Everything seemed to compile, install and run fine on Solaris 9 w/ GCC 
3.3.4.  Great work!  However,
I would also like to make a couple of suggestions to facilitate 
testing.  make uninstall is still broken:
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/apps/tetex3-beta/tetex-src-2.99.5.20041207-beta/texk/web2c'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/apps/tetex3-beta/tetex-src-2.99.5.20041207-beta/texk/web2c'
make[1]: *** [uninstall] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/apps/tetex3-beta/tetex-src-2.99.5.20041207-beta/texk'
make: *** [uninstall] Error 1

I suppose that I am over-looking the
reason for it, but wouldn't it be better if the texmf tarball unpacked 
into a
texmf sub-directory rather than the current directory.  Since it does 
not, it
requires several manual operations for each beta release:
rm -Rf texmf; mkdir texmf; mv tetex-texmf.tgz texmf; cd texmf; gtar -zxf 
tetex-texmf.tgz

These would be replaced by:
rm -Rf texmf; gtar -zxf tetex-texmf.tgz

Thanks, Rodney