[OS X TeX] Asymptote and Latex for Tiger

[Victor Ivrii]

On 10/9/06, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 14:52 , Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
> > I think I can do this quickly. Just wait a short while for an
> > experimental i-Package.
>
> It was a bit more problematic than it looked initially.
>
> I have prepared an i-Package for Asymptote. This required a bit of
> fiddling as
> - Asymptote does require a readline that is newer than what Apple
> ships up to 10.4.8
> - Asymptote does require a libc with getopt_long_only() which is
> unavailable on Mac OS X 10.3.9 hence I cannot compile it on my
> standard and only PPC-system as part of my standard `universal
> binary' builds (ppc on 10.3.9, intel on 10.4.8 and then combine the
> results)
> - Asymptote can be compiled universal on 10.4.8, but it `requires'
> Hans Boehm's Garbage Collector which cannot be compiled universal in
> one go
>
> Asymptote also `requires' FFTW, the Fast Fourier Transform Library.
>
> However, I was able to solve the real problems of readline/getopt and
> getting it compiled by
> - Downloading Hans Boehm's GC library, compiling this on intel 10.4.8
> and ppc 10.3.9 and creating an i-Package for it and installing this.
> - Adapting the Makefile and config.h of asymptote to use a system-
> wide GC and to not use readline (so no readline editing of the
> command line arguments)
> - Building asy directly on Mac OS X 10.4.8 for i386 ad ppc
>
> And of course I had to install FFTW for which I also made an i-Package.
>
> Hence, there now is
>         - An i-Package for FFTW
>         - An i-Package for Hans Boehm's Garbage Collection Library
>         - An i-Package for Asymptote
>

Great job!
Little remark:  i-installer does not install (on my machine) any LaTeX
files (it was easy getting them from sourceforge but it would be nice
to have them installed as well)

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Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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