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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!b.marco.de!krabat!leo From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Barriers to NetBSD/FreeBSD binary compatibility? Message-ID: <3824@krabat.marco.de> Date: 19 Aug 94 07:27:08 GMT References: <32okpu$17u@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <32vok8$kab@fw.novatel.ca> Organization: marco GmbH, D-85221 Dachau Lines: 16 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Herb Peyerl (hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca) wrote: > My choice of OS is obviously NetBSD but it seems I lose because all of > the available ported packages are done for FreeBSD. In fact; I still > haven't managed to spend the right amount of time to make things like TeX > work properly under NetBSD. 'LaTeX' dies, 'dvips' dies, and 'xdvik' > doesn't work right. Now I'd like to know how you managed this :-) I really don't have a "mainstream" machine (it's a pc532) and I'm running NetBSD. But TeX was just a ./configure; make. LaTeX works without problems for me. I didn't try dvips or xdvik (don't have X yet), but dvidj500 works even with automatic font building. And even when I had an good old Atari with 4 megs of ram running Minix compiling TeX was no problem (if you had the time...). Matthias