From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 06:11:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0949F16A460 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 06:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from gone.xs4all.nl (gone.xs4all.nl [213.84.247.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE8C43D48 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 06:11:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from saturnus.intra.socruel.nu (saturnus.intra.socruel.nu [172.16.0.12]) by gone.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FB133C1F; Wed, 31 May 2006 08:11:13 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:11:13 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-ID: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C5992946@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Lire port, (not) to be able to make PDF files and odvips thread-index: AcaEeOy1/QAST8chQEq2oMQHrjq5YA== From: "FreeBSD-Ports" Sender: "Lars Wittebrood" To: Cc: edwin@mavetju.org Subject: Lire port, (not) to be able to make PDF files and odvips X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:11:18 -0000 Hello list, Just want to share the following information with you: I've installed the Lire port on a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE system (with an up to date ports tree) with all the possible options (CHARTS -> to be able to make nice graphs, HTML -> to be able to make html output, PDF -> to be able to make PDF reports and EXCEL95 -> to be able to make Excel output) set to 'On'. All was fine with the graphs and HTML output (haven't checked the Excel stuff yet), but I wasn't able to make PDF reports. Lire complained that the file 'odvips' was missing (I know you have to tell Lire where on the file system you have some files). I searched it on my box and it simple wasn't there at all! I did some searching on Google and found out that it belongs to teTex. But I saw that with the installaion of Lire the teTeX-base port was also installed (as a dependency). Then I looked at the pkg-plist file of the teTeX-base port and saw that the 'odvips' file isn't build and installed with it (by default)! It has default options 'without-dvipsk' and 'without-odvipsk' set. As far as I see it this means that with the current port configuration you cannot make PDF files, although you may expect it from the Lire port options. I looked a little bit futher and found out that the pdipsk-teTeX port builds and installs a 'odvips' file. I installed it, make Lire aware of where it resides on my system and voila PDF reports can be produced. Probably switching of the 'without-dvipsk' and 'without-odvipsk' knobs for the teTeX-base port will have the same result. The questions I have now are: Anyone came across this before? Should the Lire port be updated/changed? Regards, Lars.