[comp.unix.ultrix] Ultrix 4.1 and TeX3.0/LaTeX2.09

rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell) (02/13/91)

I brought down TeX3.0/LaTeX2.09 from labrea.stanford.edu, and built
it on my DECstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.1.  The build seemed to
work fine, but when I try LaTeX'ing a file with some math symbols, I
have all sorts of strange problems of the variety:

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 63--83
\elvrm bot-tom, $\elvmi ^^\[]$
[1] [2]
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 187--195
\elvrm 0\elvmi :\elvrm 003$

We built the same TeX/LaTeX package on a Sun-3, and everything is fine,
so it's not my .tex file !!!!!

Any help would be appreciated to the point of ecstasy.

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barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (02/14/91)

In article <1991Feb12.172321.10272@netnews.whoi.edu> rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell) writes:
>The build seemed to
>work fine, but when I try LaTeX'ing a file with some math symbols, I
>have all sorts of strange problems....

	Compile without the optimizer (-O) turned on.  A few packages
(TeX in particular) are optimized incorrectly.

                                                        Dan

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avrunin@math.umass.edu (George Avrunin) (02/16/91)

Richard Signell reported a problem with TeX on a DECstation 5000
running Ultrix 4.1 --- the compilation was ok, but LaTeX had problems
with math mode.  I had similar problems in November building TeX on a
DECstation 3100 under Ultrix 4.0.  Various pieces of text in math mode
simply disappeared.

I sent mail to the maintainers of web2c, and got a reply from Karl
Berry telling me that the version I had ftp'd from labrea.stanford.edu
(version 5.0c) was obsolete.  His suggestion was to "Get 5.8a from
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1], in the directory TeX."  Apparently the
problem is due to a missing cast somewhere.

I haven't done this --- I had already succeeded in building a working
TeX on a machine running Ultrix 3.1 (with optimization), but Pierre
MacKay sent me a message saying that he had built a working version
with optimization on a beta-test version of 4.1.  So the later release
of the web2c stuff may solve Signell's problem as well.


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