On 5/16/06 6:10 PM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terry Younkin wrote:
> []
>>> I am seeing this old version of tetex only in the 10.2 trees. In fact,
>>> did you ever mention what version of MacOSX you are running?
>>
>> Martin, I am running OS X 10.4.6 on a G4 PowerBook.
>
> OK, I see now that ptex is doing this kind of thing still on Tiger.
>
>>> From the terminal, I ran the command you suggested and attempted a rebuild
>> of texi2html-1.64-16. Next, I tried a reinstall of autoconf2.5; it failed
>> as before. Further, I tried a rebuild of autoconf2.5, which also failed.
>>
>> Alexander had me try installing the binary texi2html-1.64-14 from the
>> terminal, which I did, but it did no good. I used update-all and brought
>> texi2html to 1.64-16. These things were done before I followed your
>> suggestion.
>>
>> The original problem still exists.
>
> I suspect it is this update-alternatives system that is somehow in a
> broken state in your case. Unfortunately, I don't really understand it;
> I rather think the world would be a better place without it. It is one
> of those too-clever-by-half systems that Fink inherited from its debian
> tools (another one being the emacsen system which when it breaks can
> also land you in a situation extremely hard to get out from). Every time
> I try to read "man update-alternatives", I forget what I read within 2
> minutes.
>
> I just looked it up again and suggest now the following:
>
> Purge any trace of the tetex-base-installed texi2html from your system
> by forcibly removing the following files if they exist:
>
> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/texi2html
This was found and removed.
> /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html
This was not found.
>
> Then reinstall texi2html and verify that the symbolic links are in place
> as I described them last time.
Everything is now as you stated it should be in your previous email.
>
> If /sw/bin/texi2html is still absent, then use the ultimate hack: Simply
> copy the file /sw/bin/texi2hml.texi2html to /sw/bin/texi2html.
No need for the atomic hack, it's there now. I'll try to update autoconf2.5
in the morning after I get some sleep. Thanks again for the help, Martin.
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