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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:29:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/25419: Difficulties installing print/teTeX port
Message-ID:  <200102271729.f1RHTtE04552@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>

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>Number:         25419
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Difficulties installing print/teTeX port
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 27 09:40:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bruce A. Mah
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Cisco Systems, Inc.
>Environment:

FreeBSD constellation.bmah.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #1: Thu Feb 15 19:47:36 PST 2001     root@constellation.bmah.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CONSTELLATION  i386

>Description:

The print/teTeX port seems to have some problems installing if certain
of the environment variables used by TeX are set.

>How-To-Repeat:

On my system (for some reason), I have the PKFONTS environment variable
set.  A "make install" for the teTeX port will hang after printing the
"Generating temporary packing list" phase.  I think (based on examining
the process table) that one of the texconfig invocations in
post-install is hanging or waiting for input.  Removing the definition
of this variable results in a successful install.

>Fix:

I think the best thing to do would be to try to sanitize the environment
as a part of the build process, but I'm not sure what variables need
this treatment.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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