From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 3 13:48:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA21707 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:48:21 -0700 Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA21690 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:48:16 -0700 Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA05524; Tue, 3 Oct 95 21:48:13 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 95 21:48:13 +0100 Message-Id: <9510032048.AA05524@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510031732.SAA18477@alpha.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:32:39 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: tex and latex X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Paul Richards writes: > I couldn't build either tex or latex because they use ftpget and it > doesn't understand how to get through firewalls (don't think it does > passive mode). I have no solution to this problem :-( > After gettin all the files by hand, I still couldn't build latex, > ===> Building for latex2e-95.06 > cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/print/latex/work/latex/base This is probably because you did it by hand. The correct procedure is ncftp ftp.tex.ac.uk cd /tex-archive/macros get latex/base.tar.gz latex_base-95.06.tar.gz (look at the makefile) Jean-Marc > -- > Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. > Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk > Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work) _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================