Re: Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

I have once tried to set up TeX on gentoo, and found this to be the  
most complicated and least user-friendly distribution I have ever  
seen. There's a bunch of texmf-trees in all kinds of bizarre  
locations, and a symlink farm in /etc like you wouldn't believe, and  
there's not a shred of documentation to be seen anywhere. So they  
make everything as complex as possible, but the TeX binaries are  
simply dumped into /usr/bin, so the only way to update is via the  
emerge system. But enough of this rant: be careful to figure out what  
cnf file is a symlink and which one is "real." They have an entire  
web2c tree in /etc/conf.d/texmf, if memory serves right, and the cnf  
files are regenerated from texmf.d/00texmf.cnf or somesuch, so this  
is the file you need to modify. But in the end, you may find it's not  
worth the trouble: just unmerge tetex and install a vanilla teTeX  
system.

Best

Thomas

On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> 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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