Bug#130309: (fwd) Re: short question
----- Forwarded message from Theo Markettos <theo@markettos.org.uk> -----
From: Theo Markettos <theo@markettos.org.uk>
To: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Re: short question
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:07:48 +0100
Message-ID: <20030624090748.GB24232@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
References: <20030623185440.GA27458@preusse-16223.user.cis.dfn.de>
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:54:40PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
> Just a short question? Are you the same, as the one who left once
> an entry in the Debian Bug tracking system?
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=130309
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yes, that was me. I'd forgotten about that bug.
IIRC it doesn't just apply to libwww but most of teTeX.
It is possible to solve it by using some special autoconf macros buried
somewhere in the distribution which evidently are used for this purpose. I
can't remember whether I needed a special version of autoconf as well. I was
trying to crosscompile teTeX (for arm-riscos-aof) and needed to alter the
autoconf source to tell the compiler about a strange executable extension
(,ff8) - but a straight autoconf gives the problem I reported. It seems
like the ./configure files haven't been rebuilt for some time. A bit of
documentation on this wouldn't go amiss perhaps.
But there are many more problems with crosscompiling teTeX - for example
IIRC somewhere in web2c programs are built for the target system when they
should be for the build system. I never finished trying to compile it in
the end - I can try to dig out what I manage to hack around to suggest some
other areas of need (not sure whether I have it with me, in which case it'll
be a month before I have access to the CD).
My memory is a bit hazy on the specifics, but I hope this helps...
Theo
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