Re: pdf docs? new tarball?

[Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>]

Ghostscript's ps2pdf sounds like an option if you wish to provide
pdf. Regarding the m68k ieee support, I will add a placeholder with a
guess at the appropriate exceptions.

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
 > 
 >   Brian>  You may have to drop the pdf format, unfortunately. I don't have
 >   Brian> the Adobe distiller any more so it is not so easy to make pdf files.
 > 
 > That's fair enough. I will simply retract the Debian package providing pdf
 > doc and create a new one with ps doc.  Or shall we wait? I was aware of the
 > pdf generating possibilities others have mentioned, I am simply unaware of
 > how to tie them in with texinfo. I could always flip back from .ps to .pdf
 > 
 >   Brian> I wouldn't recommend taking a snapshot from CVS, it would probably
 >   Brian> be time-consuming to get something that worked.
 > 
 > Indeed. A naive build failed.
 > 
 > But you guys haven't replied to what I reported as Debian bug #52789
 > "ieee-utils/fp-linux.c is 387-specific" on December 15, ie over 3 months ago.
 > As we try to treat all architectures fairly, this means that GSL will be
 > pulled from the Debian 2.2 release that is due RSN.  Not including GSL would
 > be a real shame, but right now it badly fails at least on m68k.  
 > 
 > Workarounds, anyone?
 > 
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