Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:09:50 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20020321042028.AD476BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:20:28PM -0500 References: <200203210214.g2L2EaKQ021164@mail.meer.net> <20020321042028.AD476BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. > > *always* > > su - > > 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 -- 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. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----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-----home | help
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