The biggest problem as for now (Jan-14-1999): testing is needed!

WARNING!
WARNING! This release contains several not-so-well-tested sources
WARNING! even in main parts of the system. Use this with caution.
WARNING! Report bugs to tetex-pretest@informatik.uni-hannover.de
WARNING!

WARNING! The programs, e.g. TeX show in their banner: "...Web2C 7.3..."
WARNING! Note, that this teTeX release does not contain the final
WARNING! web2c-7.3 release.

Problems with known workarounds:
- Compiling on NEXTSTEP: create an 'uname' command that simply says 'NEXTSTEP'.
- core dump of mf and mp on HP-UX with -O2 + gcc 2.8.1.
  Recompiling mf1.c and mp1.c with -O seems to cure the problems.
- xdvi, mf.X don't find the shared X libraries on some systems. Fix: relink
  with LD_RUN_PATH (environment variable) or -rpath commandline option.
- GNU make 3.77 on Solaris 2.6 (and later) is broken. Fix: recompile
  GNU make with
    rm -f glob/*.o
    make CFLAGS='-O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
- some versions of the egcs compiler (e.g. 1.1) are known to produce
  broken binaries for TeX (the error shows during texconfig init with a
  message about a missing control sequence \inaccessible). Fix: recompile
  teTeX with CFLAGS='-O2 -fno-force-mem'. Better update your egcs compiler
  to egcs-1.1.2-pre1.
- egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release) fails to compile
  xdvik/special.c Fix: compile that file with "-O2 -fno-inline". Better
  update your egcs compiler to egcs-1.1.2-pre1.
Problems which don't cause malfunctions:
- dvipsk shows Broken Pipe messages when \includegraphics is used for
  large gzip'ped graphic files. (The ruesult is ok, though.)
