Re: Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

I use (as root: sudo) the following shell script to install the  
latest pdfetex. For me it works. It might be of use to you.

#!/bin/sh
echo "Installing Pdftex..."
umask 022
unzip pdftex-1.30.4.zip
cd pdftex-1.30.4
sh ./Build
cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdftex `which pdftex`
cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdftex.pool `kpsewhich pdftex.pool`
cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex `which pdfetex`
cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex.pool `kpsewhich pdfetex.pool`
chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/teTeX
chmod -R u+w /usr/local/teTeX
chmod -R a+r /usr/local/teTeX
umask 027
cd ..
echo "Installing Pdftex done."
exit

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer



On Nov 28, 2005, at 21:51, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> 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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