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Help!

I have been trying to bring up the ctex version of TeX3.0 for some time
here in my spare time.  I am trying it with a variety of permutations:
3 different architectures [ sun3, sun4, iris4D ], two different compilers
[ sun3 -> cc, gcc-1.36; sun4 -> cc, gcc-1.37; iris4D -> cc (1.31), gcc-1.37 ],
and various typedefs of "schar" in site.h [ signed char, short ].

I get the following results with trip and trap:

sun 4 (Sparc) : everything works.  The final working version is a gcc compiled,
	stripped, and optimized tex and mf that pass all tests.

iris4D : every permutations works for cc.  TeX works with gcc in all
	permutations but trapmf fails the trap test with all combinations
	of gcc.  No big deal, I can live with this.

sun 3 (here's the problem):  mf works fine with cc and gcc.  TeX fails
	in all cases.  Perhaps if I tried gcc-1.37, however the chances of
	that being the problem seem slim.  Trip fails with the first
	indications of a problem appearing below.  As another experiment
	I tried compiling the .c files that the sun3 generated with a
	Sparc, thus I removed all the *.c files in the tex and texware
	directories and did the appropriate "make triptrap" in both
	to get pltotf, dvitype, tftopl, and triptex.  This proceeded to 
	pass the test with flying colors.

	I would assume that the sun3 is among the most common of platforms.
	I am sure other people have done this with no problem.  Wherein
	lies my stupidity?  I have compared the pl version of the tfm file
	for trip.tfm and it exactly matches the given one.  It seems
	to have all of the ligature info screwed up as a result of problems
	with the tfm file.  The tfm files generated are, however, exactly
	the same on all architectures.

	If anyone has a clue (unlike me) of what is going on here or has had
	everything work properly on a sun3 please send me mail, perhaps
	someone is willing to correspond while I get this worked out.

Thank you,
Lonnie

----------------- first failure part of the trip test result -------------


diff TeXtrip/tripin.log trip.log
1c1
< This is TeX, Version 3.0 (INITEX)  24 MAR 1990 16:10
---
> This is TeX, C Version 3.0 (INITEX)  25 MAY 1990 00:57
88a89,94
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no 7 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
89a96,101
> Missing character: There is no 1 in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no p in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no t in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no s in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no q in font trip!
> Missing character: There is no q in font trip!
95c107
< \rip A (ligature 7A)
---
> \rip A
97,103d108
< \rip 5 (ligature |1)
< \rip 7 (ligature )
< \rip 6 (ligature )
< \rip 7 (ligature )
< \kern-2.00002
< \rip 1
< \rip 7 (ligature |)
105,110d109
< \rip 5 (ligature |1)
< \rip 7 (ligature )
< \rip 6 (ligature )
< \rip 7 (ligature )
< \kern-2.00002
< \rip 1
113,117d111
... etc ...

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