On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 08:22:43AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> On 14-05-2015 15:32, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Good luck, but don't put pressure on yourself to get editing done.
> 
> But I do not have libkpathsea anywhere.

I think that is the difference between binary texlive and the (full,
or overfull if you are a traditionalist ;-) source install.  From
source, it goes into /usr/lib.  From the binary install, it perhaps
gets statically linked into the programs which reference it.

Kpathsea is intended to be used from within TeX, although we now
know that (at least) evince can use it - and Armin's reply clarified
that it gets dynamically linked (you can see it in tha archives if
you dropped it).
> 
> 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.

I've looked at a log of what got installed by install-tl-unx, and
libkpathsea.* is not there, so using the binary will probably not
work.  Also, using evince to view even postscript, let alone dvi
files, is not a common requirement - I'm sure most users, even in
BLFS, can get by without them.
> 
> If necessary, will ask again your help.
> 

No problem.

ĸen
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