[tex-live] Configure question. Compiling on Mac OS X 10.2, running on Mac OS X 10.1

Thomas Esser te@dbs.uni-hannover.de
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:46:23 +0100


> On 2002-10-25 23:32:55 +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> > As it turns out, on 10.2 the function mkstmeps() is available on 10.2 
> > but not on 10.1. As a result, running the binary on 10.1 fails:
> 
> Since this is a problem with xpdf and there is a new version of
> xpdf in beta testing (which will be integrated into pdfTeX when
> it's released), it might be worthwile to contact it's author and
> try to compile the beta version.

xpdf is perfectly ok, in my opinion. Gerben wants to do some non-standard
thing (compile on platform version x and run the binaries on platform
version x-1), so my suggested work-around (make GNU autoconf think that
the function is not available) seems adequate.

Thomas