Re: [Gnuplot-info] Building gnuplot 4.0 and 4.1 with tetex 3.0

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Dieter Jurzitza wrote:

> there is no error message. Within titlepag.tex there is a switch that decides 
> whether to build pdf or dvi. Since the more recent TeX versions (this is true 
> for tetex-3.0 at least ...) are based on pdftex, my system comes to that 
> switch in a way that it defaults to pdf. 

That switch doesn't "decide" on whether pdf or DVI is to be built.  It 
tries to detect which of them is being used.  This may well be 
superfluous, since modern hyperref versions probably already figure that 
out for themselves.

So: what exactly did this break?  What were the symptoms that something 
was wrong?

> The following switch makes *my* tetex-3.0 always choose pdftex by asserting 
> "pdftex," to \OtherHyperrefOpt.

That doesn't make tex choose anything --- at least, that's not what it's 
supposed to do.  I would think it a very strange TeX installation that 
switches to PDF output because the input file asks if the output is to 
PDF (and tells the hyperref package about the result of that inquiry).