RE: New quirk on Apple Panther with make distcheck

[Marshall DeBerry]

Thanks for the info, John, that's good to know.  I think I have somewhat
peculiar view about TeX in general, given that in the mid-80's, I had to get
a version of TeX, called TurboTeX, up on 68020 machine with an interesting
MMU and a version of GCC that might have been <1.0.  Many, many, hours were
spent on that effort to smoke out bugs and get TeX up, which I was finally
able to do.  Good to know that having to have TeX to produce output won't be
needed.
 Marshall


-----Original Message-----
From: John Darrington [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:15 AM
To: Marshall DeBerry
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: New quirk on Apple Panther with make distcheck


The "casual Mac user" wouldn't normally be expected to do 
"make distcheck".   If he didn't have a precompiled binary of PSPP,
then he'd have to do ./configure ; make ; make install and he'd be
well advised to do "make check".    

The distcheck target is primarily intended for the PSPP maintainer.
Nobody needs to have TeX installed in order to use or compile PSPP.

J'