[OS X TeX] pdflatex from source

David Watson dewatson at mac.com
Wed Nov 21 11:32:27 EST 2007


In my distribution, pdflatex is a symbolic link to pdftex.

On Nov 21, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:

> I was thinking about updating my pdftex by compiling from source.  
> the build.sh script does indeed produce a a pdftex and pdftex.pool  
> build but what about pdflatex? I could not find any trace of it in  
> the build folder.
>
> probably a quite superflous question: having gwTeX and MacTeX both  
> installed side by side makes it necessary to update the binaries in  
> both distributions as both keep using their respective ones, right?
>
>
> tia,
>
> alex
>
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