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Wow, what a comfort to have several people trying to help! Thanks
to everyone who chimed in - I'll start by replying to this message
from Norbert.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:AA72A60D-97C9-4891-8C10-FF46202E0B28@logic.at"
type="cite">Do you use my tlptexlive repository?<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tutimura.ath.cx/ptexlive/?tlptexlive%A5%EA%A5%DD%A5%B8%A5%C8%A5%EA">http://tutimura.ath.cx/ptexlive/?tlptexlive%A5%EA%A5%DD%A5%B8%A5%C8%A5%EA</a>
<div>There you should get updates to most programs, plus pxdvi
which allows you to see the dvi file generated.</div>
</blockquote>
I was already using that page as my main reference - the link was
given to me by Takuji Tanaka when I wrote to him directly asking for
help. But I had only used the "Installation procedure" section, not
"Compiling binaries". I think I had gotten the source files via
"rsync -a --delete --exclude=.svn tug.org::tldevsrc ." before I
understood that there were binaries that might work.<br>
<br>
Now I am going to ignore all that and start from scratch using your
way. I hope that the end result will be a set of binaries for
CentOS 5.6 that will also be useful for your collection.<br>
<br>
But I'm still running into problems. I did the following:<br>
<blockquote><tt>wget
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.logic.at/people/preining/build-tlptexlive-latest.zip">http://www.logic.at/people/preining/build-tlptexlive-latest.zip</a><br>
unzip build-tlptexlive-latest.zip<br>
cd build-tlptexlive<br>
more README (read the instructions like a good girl)<br>
vi build-ptexlive-binaries<br>
(changed these two lines, as instructed in README:<br>
SOURCE=${BUILD_SOURCE:-/root/texlive-norbert/source}<br>
TARGET=${BUILD_TARGET:-/root/texlive-norbert/binaries}<br>
)<br>
bash build-ptexlive-binaries<br>
</tt></blockquote>
It was rolling along with happy "patching ..." and "Hunk #...
succeeded..." until almost the end of the alphabet - here's the last
part:<br>
<blockquote><tt>...<br>
patching file util.c<br>
patching file util.h<br>
patching file version.h<br>
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.<br>
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file version.h.rej<br>
patching file xdvi-debug.h<br>
patching file xdvi-ptex.sample<br>
patching file xdvi.h<br>
patching file xdvizilla<br>
patching file zeit.c<br>
patching file zeit.h<br>
[root@vps-1011517-5697 build-tlptexlive]# more version.h.rej<br>
version.h.rej: No such file or directory<br>
</tt></blockquote>
I hunted around, but eventually had to use "find /" to figure out
where that file was - it was
/root/texlive-norbert/source/texk/pxdvik/version.h.rej, and it says:<br>
<blockquote><tt>***************<br>
*** 3,8 ****<br>
#define VERSION_H_<br>
<br>
#define XDVI_VERSION "22.84.16"<br>
<br>
#ifdef MOTIF<br>
#define XDVI_GUI "(Motif toolkit)"<br>
--- 3,9 ----<br>
#define VERSION_H_<br>
<br>
#define XDVI_VERSION "22.84.16"<br>
+ #define JPVERSION "j1.41-ptexlive"<br>
<br>
#ifdef MOTIF<br>
#define XDVI_GUI "(Motif toolkit)"</tt><br>
</blockquote>
Presumably you know what that means - to me it just looks like a
little piece of a diff file comparing comments. Anyway, what should
I do next?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:AA72A60D-97C9-4891-8C10-FF46202E0B28@logic.at"
type="cite">I assume you are fluent in Japanese...</blockquote>
Fluent is probably not the right word, but I get by. Missionary in
Japan for 16 years, most recently specializing in resource
development, or in my own terms, "techy solutions to non-techy
problems". My current project is a database for contact information
(well, more complex than just that, but...), and the role I'm trying
to use TeX for is to print addresses on envelopes (in tategaki
[vertical]) based on selected data. It seems like it shouldn't be
too hard, but if I have this many problems even installing it...
(:-o)<br>
<br>
Thanks for helping.<br>
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