Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 22:05:20 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! tex/latex ports problem Message-ID: <9602212105.AA13288@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199602211751.SAA12439@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> (kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de)
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>>>>> "Christoph P Kukulies" writes:
> When it comes to tex/latex I'm afraid it comes to one
> of FreeBSD's weak points. That's where Linux distributions
> (especially german ~) really shine.
> I had a horror afternoon today trying to get a tex/latex
> installation fixed after the /usr/local backup to
> a NFS mounted Ultrix volume overflowed and the volume
> got trashed at the ultrix side with the same symptom
> (fsck -b <this_time_I_saved_all_numbers> failed
> always with superblock bad). Consequence: My backup
> was gone, pkg_add had failed and had deleted parts
> of my tex installation.
> Trying to build via mount /usr/ports and /usr/ports/distfiles
> from blues to mozart resulted always in failures
> when tex/mf wanted to find plain.mf - it prompted,
> you know that ugly prompt when tex asks for different filename.
plain.mf is in the /usr/ports/distfiles/tex_base.tar.gz distfile. Can
you check if the file is correctly extracted? A common cause for tex
failure is a disk becoming full. YOu need a few megs of free space!
> latex build always ended with an Error 2 , cannot find Makefile.
I would like to see the complete log of your installation. There is
only one makefile for latex: ports/print/latex/Makefile !!
> tex built until this plain.mf point where I bailed out
> and did not know whether the installation was successfull.
> tex now always tells me it cannot find default format file.
This is normal, since the installation was not complete. Last time I
tried the port (~1 month ago) everything was correct.
> Any tex experts out there who can help me?
> Thanks.
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Jean-Marc
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