[tex-live] wrong links with --disable-multiplatform

Peter Münster pmlists at free.fr
Thu Apr 24 21:37:28 CEST 2008


On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Frank Küster wrote:

> >> >>     When using the switch "--disable-multiplatform", the symbolic links in the
> >> >> 
> >> >> Sorry, I can't support that.  Life is too short.
> >> >
> [...]
> Yes, we can all do essentially the same work about ten times, each one
> in their one distro-specific lingo, so that we cannot share our
> efforts. 
> 
> Or instead keep --disable-multiplatform working, as it has been in teTeX
> since I can remember, and in TeXLive since I'm involved.

I agree. I just didn't want to bother Karl too much, since I've already
done so with --datarootdir ... ;)

Cheers, Peter

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