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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Build complete LaTeX from source?
Date: 14 Sep 95 10:30:09 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <437eac$n68@mailnews.kub.nl> infolab1@kub.nl (Arnout Boer) writes:
>Has anybody any tips/docs/experience to share
>about how to build a very complete LaTeX distribution from source??
>Any help appreciated!
Just some days ago, i got the DANTE unix tex from the german CTAN server
and built it under FreeBSD 2.0.5. There were just some places where i had
to adjust sys_errlist and a strange interaction with X include files
where wchar_t is defined different than in stdlib.h/ansi.h.
All in all i had to adjust the source in 3 or 4 places, otherwise it compiled
out of the box and i'm very satisfied with the results.
The URL where to find the package is
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/dante-src
They did a great job!
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe
"There are lies, damn lies, and open systems." (unknown)