[tlbuild] 2010 builds

Jukka Salmi j+tex-live at 2010.salmi.ch
Sun Jun 13 23:32:57 CEST 2010


Karl Berry --> tlbuild (2010-06-11 00:09:16 +0000):
>     Hmm, and then do the same for tolower() and toupper() and isalpha() and
>     isdigit() and isxdigit() and isupper() and islower() and isalnum() and
>     those other ctype(3) functions I missed when I glanced at the code? ;-)
> 
> I suppose.  The functions are trivial and could be copied from gnulib.
> Not fun, granted, but still seems nicer to me than introducing casts in
> every such call, or changing the types.  Is it our job to rewrite the
> whole program?
> 
> OTOH ... this program was supposed to be easy to integrate.  We've all
> already spent much more time on it than it's worth, IMHO.  So here's
> another solution (my preferred one, actually):
> configure --disable-chktex on NetBSD.  Who will miss it?  Nobody, is my
> very strong guess.
> 
> If you want to port it to NetBSD, it can always be done independently.
> Maybe upstream could even get involved.  He's the one who should be
> doing this work.  Not Peter or me or you.

You're right, I'll disable ChkTeX for now and will send fixes upstream
if I find some time.


Regards, Jukka

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