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[Robin Fairbairns]

Edd Barrett <vext01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Andrew Myers<andru at cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> > This is just too good... thanks for the quotable quote. My students will
> > enjoy this!
> 
> Going for each others throats isn't going to help here.

hear, hear.

> Was the network install no good for you?

aiui, he wants to compile.  he found compilation of the lzma tools
difficult (in some unspecified way).

beyond that, i'm not sure what was wrong.

> What platform/architecture are you on?

he's on linux on something or other.

is there no "config/make"-type path for the lzma tools?

(personally, i heaved a sigh of relief when tetex went out of fashion so
that _i_ no longer needed to struggle through rebuilding it for all our
platforms.  i understand that \exist people who don't believe in anyone
else's binaries, but i can't be doing with that, myself.)

r