[Dev-luatex] LuaTeX dependencies
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Sun Dec 9 10:48:01 CET 2007
Karl Berry wrote:
> Probably the most serious problem was caused by Solaris' annoying
> /bin/sh, and---oh, yes!---/usr/bin/grep doesn't know about a '-q' switch
> (which is called by the pdfTeX-inherited build.sh at the top of the
> build tree),
>
> Maybe this has already been fixed and I didn't see the mail, but FWIW,
> looking at metapost's build.sh (which I'm guessing is similar :), I see:
> if make -v 2>&1| grep -q "GNU Make"
>
> Taco, grep -q just isn't portable. Instead, just use redirection:
> if make -v 2>&1| grep "GNU Make" >/dev/null
>
> (Arthur or anyone, if there are such portability problems anywhere in
> the TeX Live build, please tell me.)
I will fix that (it started out as a copy of pdftex's build.sh).
In texlive, I only import the metapost makefile fragment, so there
should not be a problem.
Best wishes,
Taco
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