Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 11:25:52 +0100 From: Bernd Rosauer <br@netland.sub.de> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de Subject: Re: teTeX distribution Message-ID: <199601041025.LAA00516@stiller.netland.sub.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Dec 1995 03:20:37 PST." <199512261120.DAA23441@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Satoshi Asami: > Great. Actually, we prefer it to made for 2.2-current, but usually it > works for both so don't worry too much if you only have a 2.1 system. I did the port for 2.1.0. Ollivier Robert didn't find any further patch for 2.2-current than I did for 2.0.5. So my 2.1.0 port should be ok. Although this port is something of an exercise. Thomas Esser has announced that there will be a new release of teTeX soon, incorporating LaTeX2e <1995/12/01> PL#4, among other things. Unfortunately, I cannot promise keeping current with FreeBSD all the time. I also work on teTeX for NetBSD and BSD/OS. Keeping up-to-date with all variants of BSD would make up a full-time job itself. ;-) > Also, please don't bother uploading the package, as we will build it > by ourselves anyway. (Of course trying it on your system to make sure > the packaging works is another issue, and in fact is strongly > recommended.) First of all, let me say that I like your porting scheme very much. I worked through your instructions, set up the Makefile in parallel, and "make install" worked right away. Great! But I had some trouble doing "make package". Could someone, please, have a look at the following error message? Checksums OK. ===> Building package for teTeX-0.3.3 Failed to execute tar command! Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/teTeX-0.3.3.tgz Registering depends:. Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/teTeX-0.3.3.tgz' tar command failed with code 512 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/teTeX-0.3.3.tgz Registering depends:. Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/teTeX-0.3.3.tgz' *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. Maybe, teTeX's pkg/PLIST is much too long for tar? -- In order to create pkg/PLIST I did (cd /usr/local; find teTeX -type f) > pkg/PLIST This generates a list of about 2500 entries. Apropos /usr/local/teTeX: Usually, teTeX lives, like X11R6, in a directory tree of its own, including binaries, man pages, the texmf library, etc. Especially, the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) doesn't comply with BSD's directory layout, but, I guess, that is acceptable for a full set of multi-platform tools. ;-) One further issue: I didn't yet establish the list of dependencies as for RUN_DEPEND and LIB_DEPEND in the port's Makefile. It seems to me that this would result in a rather long list for a distribution like teTeX. For initial inspection I uploaded my port to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/teTeX-0.3.3.tgz I would be happy for any suggestion you might have. Since this is my first trial I surely don't expect this to be the final version. Greetings, Bernd. P.S.: My first FTp session died. I renamed the transmitted file to teTeX-0.3.3.tgz-2nd-trial. -- Bernd Rosauer br@netland.sub.de
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