From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 14:33:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF5E1065670 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F708FC1D for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb11 with SMTP id 11so1498152iyb.13 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:33:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=O5jk5T5L9R/Oz2Ee5k7WPBkG3cfP7re7Yhw/28mVSms=; b=TzXQRAKgLjGs283rDwetc6dMKtt72y8g2Eh0wHFcUR+6lJ+nK+YMGg7bZlpcC2SrJr O/kuvixK6wT8slZsJN11YOCxnVpjPsCuCyfv2MZXtN01QwIivLjmnggCNvVnzeYWidHc 1TOZmzneCp1Abj1H5YRFtxT7gkyxK3CqaO8rs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.159.131 with SMTP id l3mr4144630icx.298.1310740425600; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.166.74 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:33:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <537F9F81-1353-4FA3-B8EF-EF99682F435E@gmail.com> <20110714160816.GA30155@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:33:45 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Jamie Paul Griffin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:33:46 -0000 >> > I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive >> >> I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the installation is headache-free. >> > > What exactly is missing from teTeX? Try this, get the source for a free college Algebra Book: http://www.stitz-zeager.com/Precalculus/Stitz_Zeager_Open_Source_Precalculus_files/SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip Use this script to generate the book: name it genAlgTrigBook chmod +x genAlgTrigBook and run $ ./genAlgTrigBook with in the SZPreCalc0715201 folder after extracting the zip file with command unzip SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip ==================================================== #!/bin/sh # change JPG to jpg since *nix systems are case sensitive for i in `find . -name "*JPG"` do mv "$i" "$(echo $i|sed 's/JPG/jpg/g')" done sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop sleep 2; for i in *.mp do mpost $i done sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop sleep 5; makeindex AlgTrigBook sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop ==================================================== Can you fully compile the book without errors? Let us know and if you can without adding a bunch of *.sty files then I rest my case. *For general small stuff it is OK, but for big projects one is really limited :( * Regards, Antonio