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Subject: Re: build of teTeX stalled
In-Reply-To: <87btzed5ad.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Nov 21, 97 09:23:22 am"
To: tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:14:49 -0800 (PST)
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According to Thomas Gellekum:
> asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) writes:
> 
> >  * 	I'll remove the earlier one in /usr/bin; but this doesn't
> >  * 	explain the date of the files in /usr/local/info.
> > 
> > That's some other port putting it there.  Probaby teTeX's own.
> 
> Yup. I always delete those after installing teTeX. The problem is that
> our install-info and info have some additions which are necessary for
> `make world'.
> 

	That explains it.  I've been bitten by having duplicates
	of a binary at least once before.  The perl (perl4) binary
	is in /usr/bin; my checkbook port, ccb, requires perl5.

	A script might be a solution; especially to catch things
	such as this.

	gary
> 


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