Re: [Texmacs-dev] [TeXmacs] Compiling under Mac OsX

[Murali Agastya]

Hi Martin, 

Many thanks for the advice. I will wait for you to submit the package. 
I am particular anxious to try out the  recent TeXmacs's ability to use 
Truetype fonts. 

best, 
Murali

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Martin Costabel wrote:
> []
> > are done from inside the texmacs.info file. But this does, of course, 
> > not mean that new versions will be guaranteed to compile without new 
> > patches. Quite often, little tweaks have been necessary.
> 
> This time (version 1.0.2.5), the little tweak that was necessary was 
> caused by a bug in src/common.makefile.in:
> 
> Lines 245/246:
> 
> $(plugins_obj): Objects/%.o: %.cpp
>          $(call cxx_incl,$(plugins_incl),$(CXXXWINDOW))
> 
> This does *not* put the necessary "-I/usr/X11R6/include" into the 
> compiler command line for the Plugins. The reason is that cxx_incl only 
> takes 1 argument. One cannot use cxx_incl_sys (which takes 2 arguments) 
> either, because then the freetype2 headers will no longer be found, 
> because they are included before the "-I-" separator.
> 
> The bug makes the compilation of the Ghostscript Plugin crash. I suspect 
> it doesn't show up on Linux, because there /usr/include/X11 is probably 
> a symlink to /usr/X11R6/include/X11, and therefore the X headers will be 
> found without CXXXWINDOW.
> 
> A Fink package description that compiles under MacOSX 10.2 with gcc-3.3 
> should shortly show up on unstable CVS/rsync. For MacOSX 10.3, I need a 
> little more time, because I can use it only since this morning and there 
> are a couple of other things to compile first before texmacs gets its turn.
> 
>