[OS X TeX] Duplicate texi* executables on Leopard
Adam R. Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Mon Nov 12 20:55:17 CET 2007
On Monday, November 12, 2007, at 11:52AM, "Berend Hasselman" <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>On 12 Nov 2007, at 20:35, Frank STENGEL wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 12 nov. 07 à 19:36, Frank STENGEL a écrit :
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>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>> Same here with a clean install of 10.5. As far as I can say the
>>> files in /usr/bin/ are part of 10.5. I just checked on my time
>>> machine backup: these files appear in /usr/bin from the first
>>> backup onwards...
>>
>> <snap>
>>
>> As a matter of fact these it looks as if in Tiger one also found the
>> texi* files within /usr/bin
>>
>
>Yes you're right. Texi2pdf doesn't seem to be there.
>I don't understand this.
>Where are they coming from? If part of Mac OS X, then where is the
>corresponding TeX?
>This is weird.
They've always been part of OS X AFAIK, or at least part of the dev tools install. They're so out-of-date that we keep our own version texi2html for BibDesk, since the help book is written in Texinfo.
--
adam
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