Viewing/printing tex documents

[Rachel Elizabeth Dillon]

This is most likely a problem with your LaTeX installation, as the latex.fmt
file should be part of your LaTeX install; on my Debian Linux machine, it lives
in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt, but I don't have a Solaris machine to find 
it on handy. If "find / | grep latex.fmt" (and there are probably better ways 
to do that) doesnt' show you any files, you're probably missing something. 
Whatever problems you do have with your LaTeX build are probably best solved
elsewhere.

In the process of looking at this problem, I did generate ps files of the
document you wanted. I put them in http://yiff.mit.edu/kerberos-temp/ so
that you are spared the pain of debugging LaTeX if you don't have time to 
do that right now. Of course, these files come with no warranty, the server
makes no claims of uptime, I probably won't do this again, I am not a LaTeX
preprocessor, etc. etc. :)

I also noticed a couple of things about the documentation tarball that might
be of more general interest:
(1) the root makefile seems to depend on the source tree being available
(2) the LaTeX documents are LaTeX2.09 and not LaTeX2E (Kerberos is old. Wait,
    "mature." Let's call it mature.)
Are these things that anyone actually cares about fixing? If so, I would be
happy to put in a couple of hours and submit a patch.

-r.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:03:07AM -0800, Mike Friedman wrote:
> For all the years I've been working with MIT Kerberos, the one problem
> I've had consistently is not being able to view or print the .tex
> documents.  At this point, it appears I have texinfo, ncurses and even a
> version of Latex on my (Solaris 8) system, but when I run 'make' in the
> doc/api directory, I get these messages:
> 
>    touch library.ind
>    latex library
>    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
>    I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
>    *** Error code 1
>    make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `lib1.stamp'
> 
> I'm particularly interested in the API document, krb5.tex, but of course I
> wouldn't mind seeing all of the documents in the doc/api directory.  If I
> could just get a postscript, or, even better, pdf, version of these
> documents, that would be great.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
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