Re: Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.context-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > I've followed the instructions listed at
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't
> > quite give.  The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup
> > as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share.
> > Does anyone know what options to pass to pdftex's configure-script
> > to match the setup on a Gentoo system (where stuff is stored in
> > /etc/texmf and /var/lib/texmf)?

> It would be simplest (and definately justified) to ask this to the 
> Gentoo maintainer, because (s)he has apparently succeeded in setting
> that up (Gentoo's trees seem to bear only a passing resemblance to
> teTeX and would be more accurately called Gentoo-TeX).

Sadly, there's no separate pdfetex ebuild for Gentoo.  If there was, I
wouldn't have to mess with this :-).

> My best guess: find the non-etc version of texmf.cnf (I'm fairly
> certain there is one), and attempt to pass the root of texmf tree
> that contains it as  --datadir to the configure script.

Yes, there's one in /var/lib/texmf/web2c.  The reason for this layout is
to separate architecture-dependent files and non-architecture-dependent
files.  I can't say that the added complexity justify this separation.

        nikolai

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