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diff --git a/Build/source/utils/pmx/README b/Build/source/utils/pmx/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dd18f6d4796 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/utils/pmx/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Copyright (C) 2012 Peter Breitenlohner <tex-live@tug.org> +You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file. + +In order to build pmx we don't need the complete libf2c library. +Specifically, we can omit uninit.c and with it the necessity to build and +run arithchk in order to create the arith.h header file (which would make +cross compilation impossible). + +From all the preprocessor defines arithchk could generate we only might need +'VAX' (most probably irrelevant) and 'NO_LONG_LONG' which can be handled by +the configure script. Thus an empty file arith.h suffices. + +================ + +Actually, compiling neither signbit.c nor uninit.c the file arith.h is not +used at all and can bbe omitted. + |