From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 19 16:54:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19019 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19006 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA02414; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:49:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: picnic.mat.net: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:48:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Gary Kline cc: John Fieber , dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LaTeX2e-97.06 In-Reply-To: <199711192247.OAA04431@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gary Kline wrote: > According to John Fieber: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, David E. Cross wrote: > > > > > There seems to be a problem with both the package and port LaTeX2e-97.06 > > > on 2.2.5-RELEASE, I have reinstalled the package 2 times, and the port > > > will not even build. > > > > I know there was a problem in the past with the packaging of TeX. > > When two packages install files with the same name and packages > > are made after installing both, at least one of the packages will > > contain the incorrect files. > > > > To do it properly, you would have to build, install, package and > > remove each port separately instead of building all, then > > packaging all. I don't know if the package building for the > > releases was fixed in this respect....if not, I'll bet that is > > the problem. > > > > Hmm. The last time I got involved with the TeX > world, I spend 4+ months with it; then it was never > 100%. > > Is there any porting tutorial that lists the necessary > steps, (1), (2), (3).... (n-1) that will get things > built? Yeah, Bernd Rosauer did a fantastic job on the teTeX port, and it installs as complete a TeX environment as you could ask for (Yes, LaTeX too). I tried several months ago (March), and quit > when the installation bombed... > > gary > > > > > > > > > -- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------