[tlbuild] mtx and libp2c

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Mon Apr 9 00:27:08 CEST 2012


 >|    > Only the mtx-0.60d tarball has been revised.  It now supports
 >|    building
 >|    > the prepmx binary without fpc (the Free Pascal Compiler) by
 >|    providing
 >|    > p2c-translated C source files and source files for libp2c.
 >|
 >|Sounds good, but I think I will let Peter take care of integrating it (a
 >|la pmx) upon his return while I work on other things.

Thanks.

 >|BTW, have mtx and pmx ever been packaged (separately from TL) for
 >|various distros?  I'm wondering if any distro people ever complained
 >|about the three-character command names for such (relatively) obscure
 >|programs, or if there is precedent and we shouldn't worry about it.

Both are distributed by MiKTeX and Debian; AFAIK they haven't
complained. Fedora won't distribute them until TeXLive does.

Best,
Bob



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