Contents:

Installation
  Default paths
  Common problems
    Unable to find files
    Slow path searching
    `XtInherit'
    `wchar_t'
    `ShellWidgetClass'
    Pointer combination warnings
  Shared library
  Reporting bugs


Installation
************

  Here are the basic steps for configuration and installation:

  1. Edit the file `make/paths.make' if you want to make changes to the
     installation directories or paths that will have effect across
     different runs of `configure'.  Alternatively, override the Make
     variables on the command line when you run Make.

     Exception: to reliably change the top-level `prefix', you must give
     `configure' the option `-prefix=PREFIX', instead of changing the
     value in `paths.make'.

  2. Edit `kpathsea/texmf.cnf.in' to change the local paths to match
     your local setup.  *Note Default paths: (kpathsea)Default paths,
     for more details on changing the paths. A copy is in
     `kpathsea/INSTALL'.  See `kpathsea/HIER' for an explanation of the
     default setup.

     If the paths do not match where the files actually are, the
     programs will probably start up Very, Very, Slowly, and/or not be
     able to find the fonts or other input files.

  3. `sh configure' (in the top-level directory).  This makes
     system-dependent `#define's' in `*/c-auto.h' (from the
     corresponding `c-auto.h.in') and creates a `Makefile' (from the
     corresponding `Makefile.in', by doing `@VAR@' and `ac_include'
     substitutions).

     Perhaps the most common desire is to compile with optimization
     instead of or as well as debugging.  You can change the options
     passed to the compiler by changing `CFLAGS', either for
     `configure' or `make'.  For example:

          prompt$ env CFLAGS="-g -O" configure
          prompt$ make
     or
          prompt$ configure
          prompt$ make CFLAGS="-g -O"

     *Note Running `configure' scripts: (autoconf)Invoking configure,
     for detailed `configure' options.  (A copy is in
     `kpathsea/CONFIGURE'.)

  4. `make' (still in the top-level directory). Barring configuration
     and compiler bugs, this will compile all the programs.  *Note
     Common problems: (kpathsea)Common problems, for system-dependent
     problems (this section is also in `kpathsea/INSTALL').

     This also creates the `texmf.cnf' and `paths.h' files that define
     the default search paths.

  5. `make install'. This installs the library, header files, and
     documentation. Or `make install-data' to just install the
     architecture-independent files. Or `make install-exec' to just
     install the (binary) archive library file.

     Since I only distribute Kpathsea as part of another package, you
     will probably be doing the above in a top-level directory that
     contains a `Makefile', `kpathsea', and the other package.  But you
     can do the installation in `kpathsea' itself, if you only want to
     install the library, not the other package.

  6. The first time you install any manual in Info, you have to add a
     line (you choose where) to the `dir' file in your `$(infodir)'
     directory.  A sample line to add is given near the top of the
     Texinfo source files (`kpathsea/kpathsea.texi' and
     `dvipsk/dvips.texi').

  7. `make distclean'.  This removes all files created by the build.


  *Note Filename database::, for a description of an
externally-generated database that can help speed searches.

  *Note Debugging::, for runtime debugging support that may help track
down problems.

  Do not attempt to use any version of Kpathsea with any program except
the version that the program came with, unless you are a glutton for
punishment.

Default paths
=============

  To summarize the chain of events that go into defining the default
paths:

  1. `configure' creates a `Makefile' from each `Makefile.in'.

  2. When Make runs in the `kpathsea' directory, it creates a file
     `texmf.sed' that substitutes the Make value of `$(var)' for a
     string `@var@'. The variables in question are the one that define
     the installation directories.

  3. `texmf.sed' (and a little extra magic--see `kpathsea/Makefile') is
     applied to `texmf.cnf.in' to generate `texmf.cnf'. This is the
     file that will eventually be installed and used by the programs to
     look up programs.

  4. The definitions in `texmf.cnf' are changed into the form of C
     `#define''s, producing `paths.h'. These values will be the
     compile-time defaults; they are not used unless no `texmf.cnf' file
     can be found at runtime.

     (That's a partial lie: the compile-time defaults are what extra
     `:''s in `texmf.cnf' expand into; but the paths as distributed
     have no extra `:''s, and there's no particular reason for them to.)


  The purpose of this elaborate sequence is to avoid having the same
information in more than one place. If you change the installation
directories or top-level prefix before running `configure', those
changes will propagate through the whole sequence. If you change the
default paths in `texmf.cnf.in', those changes are propagated to the
compile-time defaults.

  Alternatively, you can ignore the whole mess and edit `texmf.cnf'
after it is installed. Maybe even copying it into place beforehand so
you can complete the installation, if TeX or Metafont is having trouble
finding their input files.

  Unfortunately, editing `Makefile.in' *does not work* in one common
case--changing the `prefix' or `exec_prefix' variables. For these, you
must use the `-prefix' or `-exec-prefix' options to `configure'.  *Note
Running `configure' scripts: (autoconf)Running configure Scripts.
(That's another partial lie: editing does work, as long as a program
named `tex' is not in your `PATH'.)

  *Note TeX directory structure: TeX directory structure, for a
description of some ways to arrange the TeX library files, and some
features of the distributed paths that may not be obvious.  The file
`kpathsea/HIER' is a copy of that section.

  The Make definitions are all repeated in several `Makefile''s; but
changing the top-level `Makefile' should suffice, as it passes down all
the variable definitions, thus overriding the submakes. (The
definitions are repeated so you can potentially run Make in the
subdirectories.)

Common problems
===============

  Some common problems with compilation, linking, or execution are
described below.

Unable to find files
--------------------

  If a program complains it cannot find fonts (or other input files),
any of several things might be wrong:

   * You don't have the fonts (or whatever) installed. Nothing will
     automatically generate TFM files or TeX and Metafont sources for
     you (by default). *Note Obtaining Web2c: (web2c)Obtaining Web2c.

     You can, however, configure TeX and Metafont to run a script to
     generate these input files, if you have (or write) such scripts.
     *Note `MakeTeX'... invocation: (web2c)MakeTeX... invocation.

   * You have (perhaps unknowingly) told Kpathsea to use search paths
     that don't reflect where the files actually are. One common cause
     is having environment variables set, thus overriding what you
     carefully set in `texmf.cnf'. *Note TeX environment variables: TeX
     environment variables.

   * Your files reside in a directory that is only pointed to via a
     symbolic link, in a leaf directory.

     Unfortunately, Kpathsea's subdirectory searching has a (congenital)
     deficiency: If a directory D being searched for subdirectories
     contains plain files and symbolic links to other directories, but
     no true subdirectories, D will be considered a leaf directory,
     i.e., the symbolic links will not be followed.  *Note Subdirectory
     expansion::, for an explanation of why this happens.

     You can work around this problem by creating an empty dummy
     subdirectory in D. Then D will no longer be a leaf, and the
     symlinks will be followed.

     The directory immediately followed by the `//' in the path
     specification, however, is always searched for subdirectories,
     even if it is a leaf.  This is since presumably you would not have
     asked for the directory to be searched for subdirectories if you
     didn't want it to be.

   * There is a bug in the library. *Note Reporting bugs::.

  In any case, you may find the debugging options helpful in determining
precisely where the fonts (or whatever) are being looked for. See the
program's documentation for its debugging options, and also *note
Debugging::..

Slow path searching
-------------------

  If your program takes an excessively long time to find fonts or other
input files, but does eventually succeed, here are some possible
culprits:

   * Most likely, you just have a lot of directories to search, and that
     takes a noticeable time. The solution is to create and maintain a
     separate `ls-R' file that lists all the files in your main TeX
     hierarchy. *Note Filename database::.  (Kpathsea always uses `ls-R'
     if it's present; there's no need to recompile or reinstall any of
     the programs.)

   * Your recursively-searched directories (e.g.,
     `/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts//'), contain a mixture of files and
     directories. This prevents Kpathsea from using a useful
     optimization (*note Subdirectory expansion::.).

     It is best to have only directories (and perhaps a `README') in the
     upper levels of the directory structure, and it's very important
     to have *only* files, and no subdirectories, in the directories
     where the dozens of TFM, PK, or whatever files reside.

   * Finally, one simple-to-fix (but unlikely) cause: If you recursively
     search `$HOME' or `~', and you are running as `root', you will
     search every directory on the system.  This typically takes quite
     some time!

  In any case, you may find the debugging options helpful in determining
precisely when the disk or network is being pounded. *Note Debugging::,
and also see the program's documentation.

`XtInherit'
-----------

  On DEC OSF/1 1.x systems, the loader has a bug that manifests itself
in the following error (all on one line, but for the sake of the paper
width it's broken here):

     xdvik/xdvi: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: search_for_undefineds:
          symbol _XtInherit should not have any relocation entry

According to Michael Rickabaugh `<mjr@quarry.enet.dec.com>':

     This is a bug fixed in DEC OSF/1 2.0.
     
     If you know how, installing `/sbin/loader' from a 2.0 system onto a
     1.3 system will work.  Make sure that `/usr' is *not* mounted
     when you do this.  (If you forget about umounting `/usr', it is
     possible most of your filesystems will become corrupted.)
     
     Otherwise, I suggest getting a hold of a 2.0 CD and running
     `/usr/sbin/installupdate'.

  Alternatively, you may be able to use the freely available X11
libraries that come with the MIT distribution (on `ftp.x.org', for
example).

  Linking statically, perhaps only with some of the X libraries, may
also work.  (if you find the definitive workaround, please let me know.)

`wchar_t'
---------

  The upshot of all the following is that if you get error messages
regarding `wchar_t', try defining `NO_FOIL_X_WCHAR_T' (for Web2c) or
`FOIL_X_WCHAR_T' (for everything else).

  `wchar_t' has caused infinite trouble. None of my code ever uses
`wchar_t'; all I want to do is include X header files and various
system header files, possibly compiling with GCC. This seems an
impossible task!

  The X11 header `<Xlib.h>' and GCC's `<stddef.h>' have conflicting
definitions for wchar_t.

  The particulars: `<X11/Xlib.h>' from MIT X11R5 defines `wchar_t' if
`X_WCHAR' is defined, which is defined if `X_NOT_STDC_ENV' is defined,
and we define *that* if `STDC_HEADERS' is not defined (`configure'
decides if STDC_HEADERS gets defined).  But when compiling with gcc on
SunOS 4.1.x, `STDC_HEADERS' is not defined (`string.h' doesn't declare
the `mem'* functions), so we do get X's `wchar_t'--and we also get
gcc's `wchar_t' from its `<stddef.h>'.  Conflict.

  On the other hand, SunOS 4.1.1 with some other X configurations
actually needs GCC to define `wchar_t', and fails otherwise.

  My current theory is to define `wchar_t' to a nonsense symbol before
the X include files are read; that way its definition (if any) will be
ignored by other system include files.  Going along with that, define
`X_WCHAR' to tell X not to use `<stddef.h>', that we've already
included, but instead to make its own definition.

  But this is not the end of the story. The X11 include files
distributed with DG/UX 5.4.2 for the Aviion have been modified to
include `<_int_wchar_t.h>' if `X_WCHAR', so our `#define' will not have
any typedef to change--but the uses of `wchar_t' in the X include files
will be changed to reference this undefined symbol. So there's nothing
to foil in this case. I don't know how to detect this automatically, so
it's up to you to define `NO_FOIL_X_WCHAR_T' yourself.

`ShellWidgetClass'
------------------

  This section is adapted from question 47 from the
`comp.sys.sun.admin' FAQ.

  If you are linking with Sun's OpenWindows libraries in SunOS 4.1.x,
you may get undefined symbols `_get_wmShellWidgetClass' and
`_get_applicationShellWidgetClass'. This problem does not arise with
the standard MIT libraries under SunOS.

  The cause is bugs in the `Xmu' shared library as shipped from Sun.
There are several fixes:

   * Get the Openwindows patches that apply to this problem.

   * Statically link the `Xmu' library into the executable.

   * Avoid using `Xmu' at all. For this last, if you are compiling
     Metafont, *note Online Metafont graphics: (Web2c)Online Metafont
     graphics.. If you are compiling Xdvi, see the `-DNOTOOL' option in
     `xdvik/INSTALL'.

   * Ignore the errors. The binary runs fine regardless.

  Here is the information for getting the two patches:

     Patch ID: 100512-02
     Bug ID's: 1086793, 1086912, 1074766
     Description: 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 `libXt' jumbo patch
     
     Patch ID: 100573-03
     Bug ID: 1087332
     Description: 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols when using shared
     `libXmu'.

  The way to statically link with `libXmu' depends on whether you are
using a Sun compiler (e.g., `cc') or `gcc'. If the format, alter the
`x_libs' make variable to include

     -Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic

  If you are using `gcc', include `-static' in `LDFLAGS'; this will
link all libraries statically. If you want to link only `Xmu'
statically and everything else dynamically, you have to do it by hand:
run `gcc -v', grab the `ld' line, and add the `-B''s given above around
`-lXmu'.

  The reason is that gcc moves all linker options to the front of the
`ld' command line.  So you can't specify different options for
different libraries.  When I reported this to the GCC maintainers, the
reply was that they would happily merge in the changes, but they didn't
want to take the time to do it themselves.

Pointer combination warnings
----------------------------

  When compiling with old C compilers, you may get some warnings about
"illegal pointer combinations".  These are spurious; just ignore them.
I decline to clutter up the source with casts to get rid of them.

  In general, if you have trouble with a system C compiler, I advise
trying the GNU C compiler. (And vice versa, unfortunately; but in that
case I also recommend reporting a bug to the GCC bug list.)

Shared library
==============

  You can compile Kpathsea as a shared library.  The advantage in doing
this is that the different executables can then share the code,
decreasing memory usage.  (The other advantage in general of shared
libraries is that it's possible to update the library and programs
independently.  But since the Kpathsea interface is not and can not be
frozen, that doesn't apply here.)

  Under Solaris, use `-K pic -xstrconst' if you compile with a Sun
compiler, `-fpic' if you use GCC.  Also add `-L$(LIBDIR) -R$(LIBDIR)'
to `LDFLAGS' when you link the binaries, so that the library can be
found, and users do not have set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH'.

  (If you know how to make Kpathsea shared on other systems, please
send a message to the bug address in the next section.)

Reporting bugs
==============

  If you encounter problems, please report them to `tex-k@cs.umb.edu'.
Include the version number of the library, the system you are using, and
enough information to reproduce the bug in your report.  To get on this
mailing list yourself, email `tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu' with a message
whose body contains a line
     subscribe YOU@YOUR.PREFERRED.ADDRESS

  To avoid wasted effort and time (both mine and yours), I strongly
advise applying the principles given in the GNU C manual (*note
Reporting Bugs: (gcc)Bugs.) to your bug reports.

  Please also report bugs in this documentation--not only factual
errors, but unclear explanations, typos, wrong fonts, ...