From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23933 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:39:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051128180353.GB8826@puritan.petwork> <438B48E7.8080507@elvenkind.com> <20051128200525.GA8827@puritan.petwork> <545ED0D8-266F-492D-856F-CB5D79F6B452@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133293389 4371 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2005 19:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 29 20:43:07 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 1EhBLF-0002bm-CX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00380127B5; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:40 +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 26417-04; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F66D12804; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B3112804 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:35 +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 26345-03-5 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66011127B5 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 119-192.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.119.192] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id jATJeUv09153; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:40:30 +0100 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ In-Reply-To: <545ED0D8-266F-492D-856F-CB5D79F6B452@uni-bonn.de> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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:23933 Archived-At: 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 >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >