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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>,
   "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Which 2.13 DSMs (LONG) [Was: Re: Which 2.12.1 source and binary test zip file]
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:01:20 +1100
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I just checked and I found that I have not updated my Tex directory from
Simtel in a long time. Let me try this again.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Which 2.13 DSMs (LONG) [Was: Re: Which 2.12.1 source and binary
test zip file]


> Eli,
>
> I was hoping (and still am) that I didn't need to build TeX as I am still
> trying to work on the last 8 issues (now 9) with the pacakges built with
CVS
> LIBC. I  tried to build the docs on Win 98 box with TeX from simtel and I
> got some warnings and it failed to make the docs. I even went back to 2.11
> and tried to build the docs and couldn't. I wonder if this is because the
> docs were built on a Unix box. Could soemone else please try to build the
> Which 2.11 docs (html and PS docs, not info) and let me know how you went.
I
> have never tried to do this so it may be a setup issue at my end.
>
> To produce the HTML docs, type "makeinfo --html -o which.html
> which.texinfo".  The output from this was the same for both Win 98 and Win
> XP:-
>     DJGPP_204 D:\dj204\gnu\which-2.11\which211>makeinfo --html -o
which.html
> which.texinfo
>     which.texinfo:78: warning: @menu seen before first @node, creating
`Top'
> node.
>     which.texinfo:78: warning: perhaps your @top node should be wrapped in
> @ifnottex
>      rather than @ifinfo?.
>     ./which.texinfo:78: Next field of node `Top' not pointed to.
>     ./which.texinfo:120: This node (Option Summary) has the bad Prev.
>     makeinfo: Removing output file `which.html' due to errors; use --force
> to preserve.
>
> To produce the DVI file, type "make which.dvi".  The output from Win 98
is:
>     DJGPP_204 C:\dj204\gnu\which211>make which.dvi
>     TEXINPUTS=.:$TEXINPUTS \
>       MAKEINFO='makeinfo -I .' texi2dvi which.texinfo
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read $Revision:.
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read 1.10.
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read $.
>
> To produce the PostScript version, say "make which.ps". The output from
Win
> 98 failed as expected bacise there was no dvi file from the previous step.
> The ouitput was:
>     DJGPP_204 C:\dj204\gnu\which211>make which.ps
>     TEXINPUTS=.:$TEXINPUTS \
>       MAKEINFO='makeinfo -I .' texi2dvi which.texinfo
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read $Revision:.
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read 1.10.
>     c:/dj204/bin/texi2dvi: Could not read $.
>     dvips which.dvi -o which.ps
>     dvipsk 5.66a Copyright 1986-97 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
>     C:\DJ204\BIN/dvips.exe: ! DVI file `which.dvi' can't be opened.
>     make.exe: *** [which.ps] Error 1
>
> I have added Tex to the list issues to be checked out. Before I start to
> buiild TeX I would like to see if somone else can get it to work with the
> Which 2.11 package from Simtel.
>
> Andrew
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> To: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Which 2.13 DSMs (LONG) [Was: Re: Which 2.12.1 source and
binary
> test zip file]
>
>
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> >
> > >     2) Build the doc package on my old Win 98 box as I have not built
> Tex
> > > for Win 2K/XP
> >
> > That'd be an important test of the patched binaries: TeX build is very
> > complex, deeply recursive, and runs a lot of programs.  Please tell what
> > you find.
> >
>