Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-20 Thread Olaf Weber
uld be in a LaTeX 2.09 setup beyond Lamport's core. One of the results was that setups ended up being incompatible with each other, even though they contained style files with same names. Incompatible meaning one or both of "my document cannot be typeset here" or "my document

Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-15 Thread Olaf Weber
issuance of a diagnostic message). 3 EXAMPLE An example of undefined behavior is the behavior on integer overflow. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-01 Thread Olaf Weber
arguments. So you get code like this in libc's ctype.h: extern __inline int tolower (int __c) __THROW { return __c >= -128 && __c < 256 ? __ctype_tolower[__c] : __c; } As result, faulty code sort-of works, and therefore never gets fixed. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)

Re: Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-01-31 Thread Olaf Weber
the ldconfig mechanism, the set of system directories is rather fungible. On IRIX for example, the system directories for o32 binaries are /lib and /usr/lib, period. The case for using -rpath is a lot more clear-cut on some systems than on others. -- Olaf Weber

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-21 Thread Olaf Weber
g, and won't change ls-R files where this is lacking. A similar check can be added to mktexlsr, just in case. > BTW it is Debian policy to not have word-writable files. Noted. -- Olaf Weber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-18 Thread Olaf Weber
TS. [...] > The links exists: > # ls -l /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 15 14:20 > /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf Incidentally, /etc/web2c/texmf.cnf might have been more appropriate. -- Olaf Weber -- To UN

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Olaf Weber
mp; test -s $$.strange >/dev/null 2>&1; then +echo "$progname: warning: \`$cmd' caused strange path errors." >&2 + else +echo "$progname: \`$cmd' failed." >&2 +exit 1; + fi +} -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .