[tlbuild] A minor documentation error in TL2019 top-level configure
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe at math.utah.edu
Fri May 31 19:39:52 CEST 2019
A local user reports this problem:
>> ...
>> The
>>
>> configure --help
>>
>> command (on the top level of the source tree) gives among other things
>>
>> --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=KIT
>> Use toolkit KIT (motif/xaw/xaw3d/neXtaw) for xdvi
>> [default: Motif if available, else Xaw]
>>
>> The last statement is not true. On Solaris, motif is available, but
>> the default build is with Xaw. To do the motif build, one has to add it
>> explicitly.
>> ...
The texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-linux/xdvi script runs the executable
texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-linux/xdvi-xaw; the same is true for the
x86_64-solaris binaries.
Thus, the bracketed help message should perhaps be
[default: Xaw if available, else Motif]
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