[pdftex] Adress for pdftex --help

Martin Schröder ms at artcom-gmbh.de
Mon Jul 12 15:15:22 CEST 2004


On 2004-07-12 21:26:06 +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> > On 2004-07-03 11:45:31 -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> > > I guess this is another subject, but can we make pdftex --help display
> > > the right address to send reports to?  Right now it says
> > > tex-k at mail.tug.org, which I'm sure is not the best.  Either pdftex or
> > > ntg-pdftex would be better, I imagine ...
> > 
> > Right. I must confess I don't understand the innards of web2c
> > enough to find the place to change. :-(
> 
> texk/web2c/lib/usage.c
> 
> Best regards
> Akira
> 
> 
> For example:
> 
> --- usage.c.orig	Fri Mar 12 00:32:32 2004
> +++ usage.c	Mon Jul 12 21:17:48 2004
> @@ -24,14 +24,19 @@
>  void
>  usagehelp P1C(const_string*, message)
>  {
> +#if !defined(pdfTeX) && !defined(pdfeTeX) && !defined(pdfxTeX)
>      extern KPSEDLL char *kpse_bug_address;
> -
> +#endif
>      while (*message) {
>          fputs(*message, stdout);
>          putchar('\n');
>          ++message;
>      }
>      putchar('\n');
> +#if !defined(pdfTeX) && !defined(pdfeTeX) && !defined(pdfxTeX)
>      fputs(kpse_bug_address, stdout);
> +#else
> +    fputs("Email bug reports to pdftex at tug.org.\n", stdout);
> +#endif
>      uexit(0);
>  }

This would work if usage.c would know anything about pdf*TeX,
which it doesn't. :-(

Olaf?

Best regards
        Martin
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