From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 21 4: 9:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 130F637B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 04:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12106 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Mar 2002 12:09:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:09:50 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jadetex saga (things work, but I figure I should explain) Message-ID: <20020321140950.B4812@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203210214.g2L2EaKQ021164@mail.meer.net> <20020321042028.AD476BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020321042028.AD476BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:20:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:20:28PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 March 2002 09:14 pm, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > | After many de/reinstalls on teTeX and various packages I had a thought: > | "What if my old TEXINPUTS variable is inherited when I su to root to > | build/install ports?" What happens is jadetex does NOT build. >=20 > *always*=20 >=20 > su - >=20 > to switch to root before installing packages, building, and so forth. Of course, *then* you have the problem of making sure that root's profile scripts do not set any unwanted environment variables (as mine are wont to do :) But a 'su -' is a good first step, right. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjyZzY0ACgkQ7Ri2jRYZRVOQqwCgs43p5xX67GGS7NyyOVJzfN/A 7S8AoIMEik9WLw6LghN+rgX8fFD31+rC =Knlz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message