From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 16:51:36 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 A8B3C16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:51:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6AC43D39 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:51:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from [137.186.198.39] by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP <20050121165135.FSNX22950.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@[137.186.198.39]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:51:35 -0700 Message-ID: <41F1334B.30800@daltons.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:52:27 -0700 From: Aaron Dalton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <41F12A81.4050300@daltons.ca> <20050121164128.GA49680@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050121164128.GA49680@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:51:36 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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. > > > Well I've only ever used LaTeX. Perhaps I don't need it, but I'm not sure. I am unfamiliar with the specific differences between plain TeX and the LaTeX2e macros. I use Miktex on my windows box and have always used LaTeX reference materials for composing my documents. LaTeX used to be installed on this BSD box and I don't recall having any problems back then (it was installed as a part of print/lilypond). Well, now that I look through lilypond's Makefile, it appears that latex is a part of print/teTeX? *is a little confused* I will try installing that instead. What are the differences between print/latex and print/teTeX? Why are there two ports? Thanks for your help! Aaron