Thank you Roland, I will download 8.1 Release and attempt it. Thanks your for your advice and for the howto :)
Regards, Antonio On 7/24/10, Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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) > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
