Hello,
I'm sorry - I missed the beginning of the thread and the original
question, but I had exactly the same problem.
Can please someone explain me why on earth one needs
libkpathsea.a and tex-file.h
in order to be able to install packages that depend on tetex (mostly
in the sense that they need LaTeX in order to compile their
documentation)? At least I'm sure for gnuplot that it doesn't need
libkpathsea in order to build properly, but lack of this file this was
the main reason why I'm still unable to install gnuplot & wine under
fink (compiling gnuplot manually outside of fink runs without any
problems).
Or does anyone else have a better idea about what exactly these two
files are needed for?
I was already googling a bit and it seems that I'm not the only one
with that problem
Here's the error report once more:
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*** ERROR ***
You don't a valid teTeX installation; you are missing the file(s)
/usr/local/teTeX/lib/libkpathsea.a /usr/local/teTeX/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h
If you are using Gerben Wierda's distribution, you might be able
to solve this problem by using the expert mode in i-Installer,
and installing 'TeX Programs (developer extras)'.
Otherwise, install the tetex-texmf and tetex-base packages
instead, or install teTeX manually from
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
and then retry installing the system-tetex package.
----------------------------------------------------
I tripple-ckecked and didn't find anything in Gerben's repository that
would resemble developer's tools (but again - I might have missed
something). I really don't want fink to replace my tetex installation
since I need the latest tools from TeX (and fink can't provide me
those).
After manually installing a new version of metapost, I seem to have
libkpathsea.la, but I have no idea what the relation between lib*.la
and lib*.a is.
So the two questions again:
- where *exactly* can those two files be found in Gerben's i-Installer?
- is there really no chance to remove dependency on those two files?
Thanks a lot,
Mojca
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