From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 21 12: 1:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4AF37B417; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:01:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020321200112.DUTG2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:01:12 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2LK1BP11072; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200203212001.g2LK1BP11072@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jadetex saga (things work, but I figure I should explain) In-reply-to: <200203210346.g2L3kG600769@bmah.dyndns.org> References: <200203210214.g2L2EaKQ021164@mail.meer.net> <200203210346.g2L3kG600769@bmah.dyndns.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Bruce A. Mah" message dated "Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:46:16 -0800." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:01:11 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wrote: > Your last message reminded me of PR 25419, in which I described a > similar problem when I tried to install teTeX. It's still open: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/25419 > > If we knew what set of variables caused problems like this, we could at > least make the port(s) output a warning of some sort before the build > stage. If someone wants to fix this (and I think it should be fixed): The list of environment variables that make teTeX complain during installation is defined as $envvars in the ports/print/teTeX/work/teTeX-1.0/texk/tetex/texconfig script. texconfig prints a warning if any of these environment variables are set; the problem (as I remember it) is that if I cancelled the installation at this point and re-run the port's install, the port has *already* installed some stuff into ${PREFIX} which keeps it from working properly. I seem to remember blowing away /usr/local/share/texmf and being able to install after that. What the port should do is either try to sanitize the environment or print a warning before the build stage. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message