Re: 2.99.5 release

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:37:53PM -0500, ezra peisach wrote:
> Compiles aok under Irix 6.5.20m - using native compilers and GNUmake.

Ok, thanks.

> (system make bombs out in texk somewhere)...

Hm... Can you please help with some more information?

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

Good, thanks.

> 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 was not aware that there are versions of ls where -1 is needed even
when the output does not go directly to a terminal. Thanks.

> realtively fast (xdvi, dvips) until I set the paper type in
> PDFTEX. This forces a rebuild of the formats... Looks like most of

pdftex no longer uses a pdftex.cfg file. Everything has to be set with
primitives at the macro level. And, to be able to make global settings,
these changes have to be dumped into the format files.

Thomas