SUMMARY: Problem with metachar in prototype file.

From: John Keeton (j.e.keeton@larc.nasa.gov)
Date: Wed Sep 30 1998 - 08:22:48 CDT


Hello all..

I got 2 responses..
Dwight Peters
Casper Dik

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>From casper@holland.Sun.COM Wed Sep 30 09:11:48 1998
To: John Keeton <j.e.keeton@larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Problem with metachar in prototype file.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:11:11 +0200
From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
     
     
You can't; you need to install the file using a postinstall script.
     
(Solaris has a similar installation problem)
     
Casper

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I had feared this, and actually did this last night.. But I was hopeing for
a better way.. :)

Thanks guys!

                                john

     
     

John Keeton (j.e.keeton@larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Kindof an interesting problem here.. I am attempting to package up
> teTeX for installation for our 2.6 servers here, and there is a file named ~=
> The corrosponding line in the prototype file is:
> f none teTeX-0.4/texmf/metapost/support/charlib/~= 0644 root other
>
> pkgmk bombs out with:
> # /bin/pkgmk -o -d /tmp -r .
> ## Building pkgmap from package prototype file.
> ERROR in prototype:
> garbled entry
> - pathname: teTeX-0.4/texmf/metapost/support/charlib/~
> - problem: mode is not numeric.
> pkgmk: ERROR: unable to build pkgmap from prototype file
> ## Packaging was not successful.
>
> I have attempted to put the whole thing in quotes, double, backtic's,
> and even \'ing the = sign.. But, none of those work..
>
> Can anyone think of a way to get it to see the = as a char and not as an
> operator in the prototype file?
>
> I will summerize if I get any responses,
>

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