From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23900 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:51:58 +0100 Message-ID: <545ED0D8-266F-492D-856F-CB5D79F6B452@uni-bonn.de> References: <20051128180353.GB8826@puritan.petwork> <438B48E7.8080507@elvenkind.com> <20051128200525.GA8827@puritan.petwork> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133211312 20084 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 20:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 28 21:55:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egpyz-0007Ii-Kx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BB3128A8; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12666-03; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25935127F9; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1A9127F9 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12739-03 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFF7127A5 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from fwd28.aul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1Egpyq-0007cw-08; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:08 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (GWqq26ZD8eKDJEY2j5G5SCK6wa5wTEJ0MfNu6m9RJCJWLMrt92OWrC@[84.172.87.11]) by fwd28.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Egpyf-1JJFcO0; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:51:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051128200525.GA8827@puritan.petwork> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-ID: GWqq26ZD8eKDJEY2j5G5SCK6wa5wTEJ0MfNu6m9RJCJWLMrt92OWrC@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: ce48af07-1522-4919-ab32-1b87539a6bb5 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23900 Archived-At: 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 > > -- > Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! > Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. > main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);} > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context