[tex-live] a bit of mess with unix binaries and man pages

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:51:27 +0100


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:51:27PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> > 
> > so something seems to be wrong with the build process -- why is the
> > file text1 being generated/installed?

it should not be. it is not in the source at all now

 
> fmtutil.cnf in TeX Live contains commented lines:
> 
> # --- strange things
> #!physe         tex     -               physe.ini
> #!text1         tex     -               text1.ini
> #!phyzzx        tex     -               phyzzx.ini
> 
> apparently, some of people building binaries have this line
> uncommented. how/why that happened?

people building binaries should not be reading a fmtutil.cnf 
at all, surely? 

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