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From: jensting@ic.ac.uk (Jens Tingleff)
Subject: Re: Latex, and Pascal
Message-ID: <1993Nov6.120244.1072@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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Organization: Elec. Eng. Imperial College, London
References: <CFzyvF.As8@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <2bdua3$m92@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 93 12:02:43 GMT
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In article <2bdua3$m92@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
> In article <CFzyvF.As8@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
> > Just wonder if a real port of Latex has been done on FreeBSD ? Or has anyone
> Hopefully soon. (Maybe I should work on it today, huh?)
>
>
I dislike shooting off my mouth without following through, but one pitfall which
got me for, ahemm, a while is in Karl Berry's XDVIK-1.4 -and- DVIPSK-5.519d
The function kpathsea.a library function `xputenv()' assumes
that the sequence
putenv("FOO=BAR1");
old = getenv("FOO") - strlen("FOO="); /* Point to start */
putenv("FOO=BAR2");
free(old);
works. It doesn't
(FreeBSD and maybe the others?) `putenv()'reuse the storage generated from the
first store of "FOO" in the second store of "FOO" (if there's enough room).
This maens that the code above breaks. So, the cure is to run '/configure' and
then edit the "c-auto.h" file to comment out the #define HAVE_PUTENV 1 line. A
local copy of `putenv()' will then be used, and everytthing will be honky-dory.
I have mentioned this to K Berry.
Other than this, WEB2C-5.581d, DVIPSK-5.519d and XDVIK-1.4 compiled without a
problem. Works well, too!
Jens
--
Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at
Imperial College, Dept of EE, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT, England
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