From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 15:31:45 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 24B5F1065670 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04168FC13 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QhkMh-0003jS-2b; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:31:43 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QhkMg-0005kl-R7; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:31:42 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6FFVg6M069649; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:31:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p6FFVgRu069648; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:31:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:31:42 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Antonio Olivares Message-ID: <20110715153142.GA69568@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Antonio Olivares , Jamie Paul Griffin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <537F9F81-1353-4FA3-B8EF-EF99682F435E@gmail.com> <20110714160816.GA30155@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jamie Paul Griffin 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 15:31:45 -0000 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> > 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? no my mpost ( /usr/local/bin/mpost was installed by package teTeX-base-3.0_22 mpost -version MetaPost 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea version 3.5.4 ) doesn't seem to understand *.mp files generated: % mpost CartesianPlane This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) (CartesianPlane.mp (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/metapost/mfpic/grafbase.mp) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/metapost/mfpic/dvipsnam.mp)) * (Please type a command or say `end') * -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423