Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:06:04 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@ad1440.net> Cc: andrew@ugh.net.au, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, br@netland.inka.de Subject: Re: print.jadetex port doesn't compile Message-ID: <20000522190603.A12735@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <008801bfc27a$3239a320$6a1010ac@rosetta.zon>; from kelly@ad1440.net on Sat, May 20, 2000 at 09:41:06AM -0700 References: <200005191839.EAA77751@itlab70.easstud.gu.edu.au> <008801bfc27a$3239a320$6a1010ac@rosetta.zon>
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On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 09:41:06AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> I haven't investigated the failed JadeTeX port build fully, but I'd wager
> that a new version of the tex or the teTeX port must have reduced sizes of
> various tables maintained internally by tex while it runs to build JadeTeX.
> These sizes have worked before for *building* of JadeTeX but needed to be
> modified for the *running* of JadeTeX.
>
> Users on FreeBSD-doc have reported that if you make the modifications
> suggested in /usr/ports/print/jadetex/pkg/MESSAGE *before* building the
> JadeTeX port, it will build (and run) correctly.
>
> I'd recommend that the post-install or patch steps of the tex and teTeX
> ports do this on the user's behalf, unless someone sees a reason otherwise.
Yes. I'm wary of stomping over another program's defaults though,
particularly when I don't actually know how the various TeX configuration
knobs interact with one another.
Perhaps something like this, in jadetex/Makefile
IS_INTERACTIVE= "user must set PATCHEDTEX variable"
.if empty(PATCHEDTEX) && (make(build) || make(install))
.BEGIN:
@${CAT} files/PATCHTEX
@${FALSE}
.endif
where jadetex/files/PATCHTEX says
JadeTeX may require you to increase the size of certain defaults in
TeX before it will build correctly. We recommend you edit
$PREFIX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, and ensure that the following
parameters have values *at least* as high as this.
hash_extra = 60000
pool_size = 1000000
max_strings = 70000
save_size = 10000
when you have done this, run "make -DPATCHTEX install" to build and
install JadeTeX.
and remove the similar text from the post-install MESSAGE.
Having said that, if the teTeX maintainer (who I've cc'd on this) is happy
with it then a patch-aa for teTeX that did this anyway would be a better
approach.
N
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