[OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.2 on MacOS X

[OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.2 on MacOS X

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Hello together!

I know, this is a bit OT, but...

The latest beta of ConTeXt needs pdfTeX 1.20, and I'd like to use it 
but the latest pdfTeX doesn't compile completely on my Panther, I 
always get the following last words after some making and compiling:

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile "gcc -no-cpp-precomp" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
  -I. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea -I.. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea/..  
  -g -O2  -DMAKE_KPSE_DLL -c ../../../src/texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c
"gcc -no-cpp-precomp" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea 
-I.. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea/.. -g -O2 -DMAKE_KPSE_DLL -c 
../../../src/texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c -o tex-file.o
../libtool: line 1: gcc -no-cpp-precomp: command not found
make[1]: *** [tex-file.lo] Error 1
make: *** [../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la] Error 2

I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc 
-no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that libtool 
is wrong or what?

BTW: Is there any reason why sarovar.org is not reachable so often?
Now I got 1.20a from http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftex/

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Re: [OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.2 on MacOS X

[Taco Hoekwater]

Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:

> I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc 
> -no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that libtool 
> is wrong or what?

It is possible that it is searching for a single executable
like in this example?

 total 16
drwxr-xr-x    2 taco     taco         4096 Oct  8 23:09 ./
drwx------   12 taco     taco        12288 Oct  8 23:09 ../
-rwxr-xr-x    1 taco     taco            0 Oct  8 23:09 gcc -no-cpp-precomp

Greetings, Taco

Re: [OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.20 on MacOS X

[Christopher Creutzig]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> The latest beta of ConTeXt needs pdfTeX 1.20, and I'd like to use it but 
> the latest pdfTeX doesn't compile completely on my Panther, I always get 
> the following last words after some making and compiling:

  No problems here, except the nastiness of using Build and build at the 
same place -- there are file systems around which are a little braindead 
and regard capitalization as optional, i.e., on a Mac build and Build 
refer to the same file.  I just renamed Build to Build.sh and went ahead.

> I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc 
> -no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that libtool 
> is wrong or what?

  The quotes around it shouldn't be there.  In any case, why is it 
trying to use that?  Did you pass that in explicitly or do you have any 
environment variable set for it?  (Try "set | grep gcc" in a terminal.)

regards,
	Christopher Creutzig

Re: [OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.20 on MacOS X

[Hans Hagen]

Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
>> The latest beta of ConTeXt needs pdfTeX 1.20, and I'd like to use it 
>> but the latest pdfTeX doesn't compile completely on my Panther, I 
>> always get the following last words after some making and compiling:

not needs, prefers -)

>  No problems here, except the nastiness of using Build and build at the 
> same place -- there are file systems around which are a little braindead 
> and regard capitalization as optional, i.e., on a Mac build and Build 
> refer to the same file.  I just renamed Build to Build.sh and went ahead.
> 
>> I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc 
>> -no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that 
>> libtool is wrong or what?

you may try:

   www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/osx.zip

Hans

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Re: [OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.20 on MacOS X

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 11.10.2004 um 16:43 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:

>  No problems here, except the nastiness of using Build and build at 
> the same place -- there are file systems around which are a little 
> braindead and regard capitalization as optional, i.e., on a Mac build 
> and Build refer to the same file.  I just renamed Build to Build.sh 
> and went ahead.

Very good idea! :-)
I thought it were intentional that the script gets deleted...

>> I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc 
>> -no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that 
>> libtool is wrong or what?
>  The quotes around it shouldn't be there.  In any case, why is it 
> trying to use that?  Did you pass that in explicitly or do you have 
> any environment variable set for it?  (Try "set | grep gcc" in a 
> terminal.)

You're right, I set that for something other (can't remember what, I 
tried so much...), don't know if that was really the error, but I reset 
it, renamed Build - et voilà! IT WORKS! :-) Thank you!

But now I can't make ConTeXt formats any more; I'll write a new mail 
about that if I stay failing.


Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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