On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:51:55PM +0000, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many > times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default tex > installation?
TeXLive has a _huge_ list of options, and its own configuration/install script. I guess that makes it hard to port. > Is there a foolproof/idiotproof way of installing TeXLive, even from > source, that does not require one to have tetex? I've documented my install (including building the binaries from source) at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/unix/misc.xhtml#updatingtexlivetoversion2009 I've been using TeXLive on FreeBSD for years without problems. There are some ports (e.g. auctex for emacs) that require TeX. For those ports, I patch their Makefiles to use TeXLive. Below is the patch for auctex's port Makefile; ----- auctex port patch ----- --- Makefile.orig 2009-07-31 15:55:10.000000000 +0200 +++ Makefile 2009-12-21 16:06:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ MAINTAINER= h...@freebsd.org COMMENT= Integrated environment for writing LaTeX using GNU Emacs -BUILD_DEPENDS= ${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base -RUN_DEPENDS= ${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base +#BUILD_DEPENDS= ${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base +#RUN_DEPENDS= ${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base USE_GHOSTSCRIPT=yes GNU_CONFIGURE= yes @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ MKTEXLSR=${MKTEXLSR} INFO= auctex preview-latex -TEXMFDIR= share/texmf -MKTEXLSR= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/mktexlsr +TEXMFDIR= texlive/2009/texmf +MKTEXLSR= ${LOCALBASE}/texlive/2009/bin/amd64-freebsd/mktexlsr NOT_FOR_ARCHS= ia64 ----- auctex port patch ----- Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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