deleeuw@sonia.math.ucla.edu (11/22/90)
I have compiled the recently posted CommonTex sources on AUX. This gives INITEX, which seems to work fine. The compile has no problems, except that -D_SYSV_SOURCE was needed for fileio.c. I looked at the sources and, yes, a readible, portable, modifiable TeX ! By the way, I used the most recent gcc from wuarchive.wustl.edu. There is one problem, however. CommonTeX dumps the formats as core images, which then have to be processed by undump. I do not have an undump for A/UX, and the one distributed with Unix TeX do not seem to work. Anybody who can help out ? --- Jan Jan de Leeuw Dept Math UCLA; 7236 MSB; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 telephone (213)-825-8525; telefax (213)-206-6673 Dept Psych UCLA; 3584 FH; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1563
rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) (11/22/90)
deleeuw@sonia.math.ucla.edu writes: >There is one problem, however. CommonTeX dumps the formats as core >images, which then have to be processed by undump. I do not have >an undump for A/UX, and the one distributed with Unix TeX do not >seem to work. Anybody who can help out ? Hmm... I know of undump *routines* available for A/UX (i.e a subroutine to dump the current process's address space and make it into a working executable) -- just grab it out of the Emacs source. Don't know of an undump program (one that takes a core file and produces an executable), though a Sufficiently Clever Person could probably hack one out of the undump subroutine. You might want to check, though, and see if there's some way you can run CommonTeX without having undumped executables. I don't use CommonTeX -- I use the web2c TeX port from labrea.stanford.edu instead -- but the people who work on that port claim that undumping doesn't really give an advantage; it apparently isn't really much if any faster to run an undumped executable than to run a standard "virgin TeX" and have it load in the .fmt files that TeX itself can dump. They concluded that it isn't really worth the hassle of getting undump working on one's system if one wants to run web2c TeX. Unless something's drastically different about CommonTeX, I suspect the same would be true there... -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp