On 15-05-2015 16:28, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Could work yesterday. Today, no headache, until now, so it seems
to be gone. Hopefully.

>> 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.

Next time, I will try to build from source.

> Kpathsea is intended to be used from within TeX, although we now
> know that (at least) evince can use 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.

Understood.

>> If necessary, will ask again your help.

Thanks, again.


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