eco@ece-csc.UUCP (ECO) (03/15/89)
Hi. I'm trying to install TeX 2.95 on an IBM RT running AIX 2.2.1 (Sys 5).
During the execution of the line:
../texware/tangle tex.web ctex.ch
I get the error:
! Value too big: 2550000. (1.3151)
It appears (although I could be wrong) that this line in tex.web is the culprit:
@d eject_penalty=-inf_penalty {``negatively infinite'' penalty value}
I'm not compiling with the BIG patch. Any comments, hints, suggestions,
solutions would be GREATLY appreciated!
Amy Johnson (johnson%eceugs@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu)
Engineering Computer Operations
North Carolina State Universitymorris@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Kate Morris) (03/23/89)
In article <3954@ece-csc.UUCP> eco@ece-csc.UUCP (ECO) writes: > >Hi. I'm trying to install TeX 2.95 on an IBM RT running AIX 2.2.1 (Sys 5). >During the execution of the line: > > ../texware/tangle tex.web ctex.ch > >I get the error: > > ! Value too big: 2550000. (1.3151) > > Amy Johnson (johnson%eceugs@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu) > Engineering Computer Operations > North Carolina State University I was compiling TeX 2.95 on an IBM RT running the December 88 release of AOS (4.3), and I had the same problem. It looks like the RT has problems converting between chars and ints (or at least, it doesn't do what the writers of ctex expected it to do). I tried compiling using hc (it didn't get even as far as this), hc1.4 and pcc; the last two both died at the line above. My "solution" (very inelegant, I know) was to typedef short schar; in "site.h" -- the default is typedef char schar. pcc doesn't understand the signed char type, so that wouldn't work. Anyway, tex now compiles with no problems. -Kate Morris (morris@carcoar.stanford.edu) Computer Science Department, Stanford University