Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 13:23:36 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USE_TEX question Message-ID: <518BE9A8.2070704@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <CADLo839cAwZyBNejTGZxjbZC_C6UWQhRGTwcdUxbdrFWGEPvbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <518BDE81.3060008@missouri.edu> <CADLo839cAwZyBNejTGZxjbZC_C6UWQhRGTwcdUxbdrFWGEPvbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/09/13 13:15, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 9 May 2013 18:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
>> So I have a port, math/sage, which now contains in Makefile the line
>> USE_TEX= tetex
>>
>> I have intalled the texlive ports. So now if I try to install math/sage, it
>> gives me error messages about CONFLICTS, which I think arise from the fact
>> that math/sage thinks that it has to first install tetex, and this conflict
>> with various texlive ports.
>>
>> But, math/sage is TEX agnostic. It doesn't care whether it is tetex or
>> texlive that is installed. All it really wants to know is if there is a
>> useable latex in PATH.
>>
>> It would be nice if there was a USE_TEX=yes option, or something like that,
>> which I could put into the math/sage port.
>
> USE_TEX=${TEX_DEFAULT} should work fine-- have you tried that?
>
> Chris
Ah, yes. And you have to set TEX_DEFAULT in /etc/make.conf as well.
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