From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 16:41:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EBE16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:41:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D029443D46 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:41:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 354AE37E83; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:41:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2229637E47 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:41:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E6C4737E47 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:41:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 50170 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Jan 2005 16:41:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:41:28 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Aaron Dalton Message-ID: <20050121164128.GA49680@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Aaron Dalton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41F12A81.4050300@daltons.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F12A81.4050300@daltons.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error installing print/latex X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:41:31 -0000 On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > When doing a make on print/latex I get the following error: > > ===> Compressing manual pages for tex-3.14159_2 > ===> Registering installation for tex-3.14159_2 > ===> Returning to build of latex2e-2003.12_1 > ===> Configuring for latex2e-2003.12_1 > ===> Building for latex2e-2003.12_1 > ! I can't read tex.pool; bad path? > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/ports/print/latex. > > I am sure this is some sort of path thing because tex.pool indeed exists > at /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/tex.pool; however, I have been unable > to figure out what I need to change where to make it work. > > I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE. Any help you could provide would be most > appreciated. Thank you for your time! Is there some particular reason why you must use print/latex ? If there is not I would suggest that you use print/teTeX instead. It is probably more up to date and is what most people use for TeX-related stuff. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se