On 14-05-2015 15:32, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 07:10:57PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:52:19PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> >>> I'm still on 3.14 (you know me - I don't bother updating most >>> packages unless I become aware of problems). >> >> For some reason, I booted a 7.7 system this afternoon. I've found a >> .dvi from when I had time to play with the TeX book, will reboot to >> a current system [ which is what I had intended to be running! ] and >> rebuild evince. Stay tuned. >> > In fact, I did not need to rebuild - because this is a test system, > I think I had built some TeX stuff before building evince, and it > claimed to support the DVI backend. Fortunately, I started evince > from a term and pointed it to the dvi on the commandline.
> So, to answer the original question - if evince's configure reports > that the DVI backend is enabled, it should be able to display a dvi > file - provided that the texlive progs are on the user's PATH (yes, > BLFS does that at least for a normal user, but I set my PATH > differnetly). But the display will take some time (several seconds > for what is a minimal document with only 5 lines of text, so perhaps > several minutes for a long real document) because it runs a series of > TeX programs, so best to do this from a term in case there are any > problems. > > Also, I don't know _where_ the TeX progs write these logs, and after > a succesful run I cannot see them - so debugging any problems might > be harder than normal. Thanks for the research!!! Yesterday I had a big headache, think it is name migraine, and stopṕed working early. So, today I will concentrate in doing as many tickets as possible and will postpone this issue. Hope that the small headache I still feel will let me work fine today. But I do not have libkpathsea anywhere. Think I did not install complete TeX, and will do it again perhaps tomorrow. And will install libspectre. And will make their use explicit in evince's page. If necessary, will ask again your help. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
