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On 9 May 2013 19:23, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

No, you shouldn't.  Remember make evaluates lazily.

Chris