From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: TeX/MF *without* X... Date: 14 Mar 1993 03:48:09 GMT
Okay, I've tried, but I just can't get it to work...I want to
run TeX/LaTeX under Linux. In order to output to a printer, I
will be running DVIPS...If a particular font is not found,
I want to be able to generate it using MakeTeXPK (which calls
MF). Now comes the fun part...I *don't* want to run X. I *don't*
have the disk space and I *don't* have a VGA display (not even an
EGA display). whats the problem you ask?? well, here goes...
I started out with the most recent SLS release - the one on tsx-11
as of 3/11/93. I got the whole thing, even the X series...
So, I installed the A series, the B series, the C series, *and*
the T series...okay, fine, everything is just wunnerful...
I LaTeX a file and it works!!! I get a DVI file produced...now comes the
fun part...I try doing a DVIPS on the DVI file...it can't find a font
it needs...so it calls MakeTeXPK...MakeTeXPK then calls MF which
tells me it can't find /lib/libXt.so.3...whoever ported MF to Linux,
shared libraries are fine, but don't forget about those of us who
DON'T use X, but *still* need to use TeX/LaTeX/MF/... Okay, so I
get out the X series of diskettes and try to find a file named
/lib/libXt.so.3 in the .tpz files. I find it on the X1 diskette
in xbase12.tpz. Great!!! so I extract the lib file (which was
linked to /lib/libXt.so.3.0) and tried it again...now MF tells
me that I have an incompatible version of /lib/libXt.so.3!!!!
(blood pressure rises *another* 25 points...:-(
So, did I do something wrong ? or is the version of /lib/libXt.so.3
that is shipped with the X series of diskettes incompatible with
the version of MF that is shipped with the T series of diskettes...
As of now, the whole TeX/LaTeX/DVIPS is a useless pile of crap, simply
because MF is linked to a frigging shared library!!! HELP!!!!
John
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov