[tex-live] xdvi and X11R7.4 (cygwin)
Ken Brown
kbrown at cornell.edu
Sun Nov 23 15:33:02 CET 2008
Hi Stefan,
On 11/22/2008 2:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/22/2008 9:40 AM, Stefan Ulrich wrote:
>> As for the libtool/autoconf being old, as mentioned in this reply:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00119.html
>>
>> - the current version uses the same libtool setup as the rest of
>> TeXLive, changing it would be quite hard, but of course it could
>> be related to this problem.
>
> Would it be hard to change it if I just wanted to build xdvik? I
> tried downloading the source for xdvik and building it. It builds
> OOTB, but the resulting xdvi-xaw segfaults as before. I then tried
> autoreconf --force, but this yielded syntax errors when I subsequently
> ran 'make'. So clearly a naive approach to changing the libtool setup
> won't work. If you think this is worth pursuing in order to narrow
> down the problem, and if you can give me instructions on how to
> "re-libtool" the xdvik source, I'll try it. Otherwise I'm ready to
> give up.
Here's one more data point in case it tells you anything: I built
plain-old xdvi (as opposed to xdvik), and it runs without a problem.
Since xdvik is based on xdvi-22.84, I tested both it and xdvi-22.85, and
they both work fine. So whatever the problem is, the extra
complications in xdvik are required in order to trigger it.
Best regards,
Ken
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