I have once tried to set up TeX on gentoo, and found this to be the
most complicated and least user-friendly distribution I have ever
seen. There's a bunch of texmf-trees in all kinds of bizarre
locations, and a symlink farm in /etc like you wouldn't believe, and
there's not a shred of documentation to be seen anywhere. So they
make everything as complex as possible, but the TeX binaries are
simply dumped into /usr/bin, so the only way to update is via the
emerge system. But enough of this rant: be careful to figure out what
cnf file is a symlink and which one is "real." They have an entire
web2c tree in /etc/conf.d/texmf, if memory serves right, and the cnf
files are regenerated from texmf.d/00texmf.cnf or somesuch, so this
is the file you need to modify. But in the end, you may find it's not
worth the trouble: just unmerge tetex and install a vanilla teTeX
system.
Best
Thomas
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
I've followed the instructions listed at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't
quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup
as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share.
Does anyone know what options to pass to pdftex's configure-script
to match the setup on a Gentoo system (where stuff is stored in
/etc/texmf and /var/lib/texmf)?
It would be simplest (and definately justified) to ask this to the
Gentoo maintainer, because (s)he has apparently succeeded in setting
that up (Gentoo's trees seem to bear only a passing resemblance to
teTeX and would be more accurately called Gentoo-TeX).
Sadly, there's no separate pdfetex ebuild for Gentoo. If there was, I
wouldn't have to mess with this :-).
My best guess: find the non-etc version of texmf.cnf (I'm fairly
certain there is one), and attempt to pass the root of texmf tree
that contains it as --datadir to the configure script.
Yes, there's one in /var/lib/texmf/web2c. The reason for this
layout is
to separate architecture-dependent files and non-architecture-
dependent
files. I can't say that the added complexity justify this separation.
nikolai
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