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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>,
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Subject: Re: Jadetex saga (things work, but I figure I should explain)
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On Wednesday 20 March 2002 11:20 pm, 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.
|
| Sometimes -- heck, most of the time, for more people, a single "su" will
                                                          ^^^^^^
I meant "simple", not a "single."  A single su, of course, will suffice if it 
has the - (login) option.


| suffice, but you're just asking for trouble.
|
| | So, in future (is there a FAQ) when installing these packages make sure
| | you don't have any old TEX environment variables set.
| |
| | Thanks to everyone for all the help.
| |
| | Later,
| | George

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