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From: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX on IBM R6000
Summary: Here's my version of tex.web 3.0
Message-ID: <914@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 27 Oct 90 11:15:12 GMT
References: <1363@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
Organization: United Federation of Planets
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In article <1363@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> pmaresch@hawk.ulowell.edu (Pierre Mareschal) writes:
>Hi,

Lo!

>Here is a message I get when building latex on the IBM R6000
>systems but I never encountered such a problem!

Um, just a comment: you aren't building LaTeX, you are building TeX, since
LaTeX is just a macro package.
OK, enough nitpicking, let's get to the real issue.

>------ Begin of Message
>% make
>        ../web/tangle tex.web ctex.ch
>This is TANGLE, C Version 4
>*1*17*25*38*54*72*99*110*115*133
>! Value too big: 2550000. (l.3229)
>@d
>   penalty(#) == mem[#+1].int {the added cost of breaking a list here} *162*173*
[...]

That line looks exactly the same in my version. I don't have the same problem,
though. I have build TeX and mf, both in the big (32bit) version, on our /6000
and everything is running (running indeed!) merrily along.

So, here's what I think can have caused your problem:

1.) I compile everything with bsdcc. Read /usr/lpp/bsdport for details about
    bsdcc, if you haven't already done so.

2.) Look at your changes file (ctex.ch). There should be something like
    ctex32.ch and ctex16.ch, or at least a bigtex.diff, which you should
    apply (Sorry, no patch on AIX3.1, you have to do it by hand or port
    patch first).

I can't understand why all of you have this problem. I got a tape with the
very same TeX sources that were compiled on our Sun4 at my university and
compiled it on the /6000 within about an hour. No problems whatsoever.

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