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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: latest "kpathsea" versions of TeX programs
Date: 2 Dec 1995 08:48:30 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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References: <SHIVERS.95Dec2032540@lambda.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <SHIVERS.95Dec2032540@lambda.ai.mit.edu>,
Olin Shivers <shivers@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
:I have been building the latest versions of the TeX programs (tex, latex, mf,
:xdvi, dvips, etc.) for my FreeBSD system. (The TeX packages in the FreeBSD
:2.0.1 are not up-to-date.)
:
:This is all pretty straightforward and painless, except for dvips(k).
:The make includes /usr/X11R6 and /usr/include/sys .h files that clash on
:	wchar_t
not sure but the sys ones are authoratative, so they are the
ones that should be used..
the others need to be disabled..
sure there isn't a config option?

:and
:	sys_errlist
:definitions. This seems like a bug in the X11R6 libs.
:
:Has anybody figured out the right hack to beat this?
:	-Olin

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