TeX 3.0 is busted, get 3.1

Mark Galassi rosalia at max.physics.sunysb.edu
Mon Jun 10 05:19:20 AEST 1991


In article <luis.644517375 at keckiris> luis at rice.edu (luis soltero) writes:
>TeX 3.0 compiled and ran fine on a 4D/310 under IRIX 3.3.1
>using gcc.

>>Get 3.1. 
>>It works. 3.0 is badly busted. I had the same problem.

>>>Has anyone successfully built TeX 3.0 on an 4D/25?  I tried building it and
>>>it compiled o.k. (after two tries), but when I tried to run latex on the
>>>sample document sample.tex, it generated one word per page. 

If you look at the "site.h" file in the UNIX TeX3.0 distribution which
is right now on Labrea, you will see that there is a place where you
must #define or typedef "schar" to get signed chars.  The MIPS C
compiler will (ordinarily) keep chars unsigned.  I kept on getting one
word/page until I changed that.  After I changed it, it worked fine.

Also:  what's all this about 3.1?  I checked labrea.stanford.edu
(or whatever) and didn't see it a couple of weeks ago.

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