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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
