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From: Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you!
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> teTeX is, in Linux terms, a TeX/LaTeX/PDFTeX/AMSTeX distribution. It has
> the huge advantage to be buildable very cleanly. 

Except that it doesn't build.  On a FreeBSD-2.2.7 system, building the
teTeX-0.4 port fails when it tries to build the plain.fmt file.  I've
tried hand-building it in case the port was broken, but get essentially
the same failure:

Running initex to create plain format...
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) (INITEX)
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/plain/config/tex.ini
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more
fonts,
macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/config/hyphen.tex
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/babel/plain.def)
! Missing control sequence inserted.
<inserted text> 
                \inaccessible 
<to be read again> 
                    
\body ->\endlinechar \m@ne \read 1 to 
                                      \bbl@line \endlinechar `\^^M \ifx
\bbl...

\iterate ->\body 
                 \let \next \iterate \else \let \next \relax \fi \next 
l.326   \repeat
               ^^M
? 
! Emergency stop.

I'll try again tomorrow with teTeX-beta.  Sigh.

--Sean

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