I should be clear what I did. I changed the init.sh script from
prepend to append (to the path) as it seemed the logical way to do it
at the time. If fink is attempting to change the path load order by
invoking this script itself, then I broke it. On the other hand, if
this is not the case, fink is not behaving as expected as the cause
of my problems was pretty clearly moving the fink order in my path
around.
Paul
On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Paul Fons wrote:
Thanks all for helping me track down the problem. As you suspect
it was a path issue. Quite a while ago now, I found that fink's
copy of teTeX was breaking my TeXShop installation as I was using
TeXLive with TeXShop and the higher precedence of fink's version
caused a variety or problems. The solution from consulting with
the fink user list was to append fink to the paths (vs.
prepend). This solved the problems for quite a while, but now it
seems to have created its own problems now. Now I am using the
official TUG MacTeX distribution (which is TeXLive) so I will see
if there are still path issues. It would be a "bad thing" I
think though if fink broke the standard supported on the Mac
LaTeX package in favor of an obsolete (in the sense of no bug
fixes/development frozen) teTeX. I understand it is a lot of
work to support MacTex (as it is while free, quite large), but
there should be a way to get around this problem by changing the
fink command so that when invoked it prepends the correct bits to
its path so that the old hack of append the fink path bits at the
end of the path variable will work again. In any case, at this
point I have yet to see if the conflicts still exist. Perhaps
this is a non issue now. I will check.
It is very good that this problem appeared just now, because there
is an ongoing discussion about how to handle non-Fink installed TeX
distributions in Fink. One point that must remain clear is that
when fink is compiling (and patching!) its own stuff, it must put /
sw/bin:/sw/sbin in front of everything. I thought that it is doing
this currently, whatever the user is doing in his shell startup
scripts, but your experience shows that his is not guaranteed even
now.
--
Martin
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