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- This directory contains a program that use the kpathsea library for
- configuration and path searching, and the library itself.
-
- If you are looking for a high-level overview of installing a TeX system
- from scratch, try ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/unixtex.ftp, mirrored on CTAN
- sites as /tex-archive/help/unixtex.ftp. For a list of CTAN sites,
- finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu (a list current as of the time of
- distribution is in the file FTP).
-
- README in each program's subdirectory has an overview of that program.
- NEWS in each subdirectory contains noteworthy changes by release.
- INSTALL in each subdirectory has detailed instructions.
- kpathsea/INSTALL has information common to all the packages.
- kpathsea/CONFIGURE has information on running the configure script.
-
- If you just want to go for it (see kpathsea/INSTALL for explanations and
- variations):
- configure
- make
- make install
- make distclean
- (In the top-level directory, i.e., the one with this README.)
-
- Do not merge different distributions that use kpathsea unless you are
- savvy enough to deal with the consequences. web2c, in particular, uses
- a much older version than the drivers (for a patch, see
- ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/kpathsea-2.*.help).
-
- The default installation prefix is the parent of the directory
- containing the program `tex', or /usr/local. To change it or any other
- paths, see kpathsea/INSTALL.
-
- The above installs the programs, plus the configuration file texmf.cnf
- and all the documentation. To install the libkpathsea.a library itself
- and its header files, do
- (cd kpathsea; make install)
- before the make distclean. (configure does not look for an installed
- library or header files, since it's virtually always incompatible from
- one version to the next.)
-
- Please report bugs or suggestions in either the programs
- or the documentation, no matter how small, to tex-k@cs.umb.edu.
- Please read the `Bugs' section of the kpathsea manual (a copy is in
- kpathsea/INSTALL) before submitting bug reports, to avoid wasting
- everyone's time.
-
- Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing
- subscribe you@preferred.email.address
- in the body of the message to join this mailing list.
-
- If you know enough about TeX to be reading this, then you (or perhaps
- your institution) should consider joining the TeX Users Group. (If
- you're already a member, great!) TUG produces the TUGboat periodical,
- sponsors an annual meeting and publishes the proceedings, and arranges
- TeX courses for all levels of users. Given funding (which your joining
- would help) TUG will sponsor more projects that will benefit the TeX
- community, such as a successor to TeX $\pi$.
-
- Anyway, here is the address:
-
- TeX Users Group
- P.O. Box 869
- Santa Barbara, CA 93102 USA
- phone: (805) 899-4673
- email: tug@tug.org
-
- This is free software. See the files COPYING* for copying permissions.
-
- kb@cs.umb.edu
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net.
-
- (We begin again. We try. We begin again ... down by ... the muddy river.
- --Laurie Anderson.)
-