Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:33:45 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Jamie Paul Griffin <jpg@gnix.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcOd-cT8=YdUqUXzLSCwsCwXwPN0FikxTqSkVDTMr5182Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <537F9F81-1353-4FA3-B8EF-EF99682F435E@gmail.com> <CAJ5UdcOncZNJ4Y-NsAfHK4FvK%2BRQUnUyD=9Ne6x_fbX2TomyJQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110714160816.GA30155@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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>> > I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive >> >> I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the installation is headache-free. >> > > What exactly is missing from teTeX? Try this, get the source for a free college Algebra Book: http://www.stitz-zeager.com/Precalculus/Stitz_Zeager_Open_Source_Precalculus_files/SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip Use this script to generate the book: name it genAlgTrigBook chmod +x genAlgTrigBook and run $ ./genAlgTrigBook with in the SZPreCalc0715201 folder after extracting the zip file with command unzip SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip ==================================================== #!/bin/sh # change JPG to jpg since *nix systems are case sensitive for i in `find . -name "*JPG"` do mv "$i" "$(echo $i|sed 's/JPG/jpg/g')" done sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop sleep 2; for i in *.mp do mpost $i done sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop sleep 5; makeindex AlgTrigBook sleep 5; pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop ==================================================== Can you fully compile the book without errors? Let us know and if you can without adding a bunch of *.sty files then I rest my case. *For general small stuff it is OK, but for big projects one is really limited :( * Regards, Antonio
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