Need a teTeX-beta maintainer
Nicholas Wourms
nwourms@netscape.net
Tue Jul 2 11:02:00 GMT 2002
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>>It makes some kind of sense. But I already made another vague promise
>>(netpbm) that I haven't kept until now.
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>>This moring after reading Christopher's mail, I downloaded tetex-beta
>>and latest sources to see if I could painlessly take over. I spent a
>>good hour poking around, but I found that:
>>
>> * tetex isn't prepared for --srcdir builds (annoying)
>> * tetex isn't prepared for cross builds (showstopper)
>> * Jerome's Cygwin fixes have still not found their way upstream
>> * Jerome's Cygwin patch isn't prepared for --srcdir builds
>>
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>>So... I'll promise to take a look at it, because I really like to
>>have a good tetex package in Cygwin. But, I can't promise to take it
>>over yet, as I don't run Windows (and thus also no cygwin).
>>
Perhaps, if you have a copy of windows kicking around, you might try
VMware? I've even heard rumors that someone got it running under Wine.
>>
>>If I can get the beast to cross build, and get it tested, I may step
>>forward to be the maintainer.
>>
Thanks for all your hard work! Your points are all well put, so I
completely understand where you are coming from. *Sigh* If only
updating teTeX modules were as easy as updating a perl module...
>>
>>Btw: I've been putting quite some time in getting a fine guile release
>> to cross build for Cygwin, because this has a high priority for
>> me. But as yet I can't get a shared version linked. It seems I
>> need the latest autotools from cygwin, but I need them as cross
>> build tools.
>>
Pretty much all of Chuck's updates to libtool have been pushed upstream
starting about a week or two ago. I believe the same can be said for
the other autotools. You'll probably want to get the new gettext/iconv
as well. I'd reccommend getting HEAD CVS sources of libtool and
autoconf, plus the automake-1.6.2 releases.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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