[tex-k] Metafont on Solaris: putbyte(255) failed

[Thomas Esser]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> This is on Sparc Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), teTeX 2.0.2.  METAFONT has no

>From teTeX's PROBLEMS file:

- Solaris 2.6 with gcc 3.2.3: some tool saying "fatal: putbyte(255)
  failed". Solution: gftopk *and* mf-nowin  without optimization, e.g.
    (cd texk/web2c; rm -f gftopk.o; make gftopk CFLAGS=)
    (cd texk/web2c; rm -f mfnowin.o mfini.o mf0.o mf1.o mf2.o window/trap.o; make mf-nowin CFLAGS=)

Thomas