Hello *,
Some time ago, some Gentoo TeX guru (don't remember who) advised to
include the following code to the sci-mathematics/maxima ebuild:
# Calculating MAXIMA_TEXMFDIR
if use latex; then
local TEXMFPATH="$(kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSITE)"
local TEXMFCONFIGFILE="$(kpsewhich texmf.cnf)"
if [ -z "${TEXMFPATH}" ]; then
eerror "You haven't defined the TEXMFSITE variable in your
TeX config."
eerror "Please do so in the file
${TEXMFCONFIGFILE:-/var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf}"
die "Define TEXMFSITE in TeX configuration!"
else
# go through the colon separated list of directories
# (maybe only one) provided in the variable
# TEXMFPATH (generated from TEXMFSITE from TeX's config)
# and choose only the first entry.
# All entries are separated by colons, even when defined
# with semi-colons, kpsewhich changes
# the output to a generic format, so IFS has to be
redefined.
local IFS="${IFS}:"
for strippedpath in ${TEXMFPATH}; do
if [ -d ${strippedpath} ]; then
MAXIMA_TEXMFDIR="${strippedpath}"
break
fi
done
# verify if an existing path was chosen to prevent from
# installing into the wrong directory
if [ -z ${MAXIMA_TEXMFDIR} ]; then
eerror "TEXMFSITE does not contain any existing
directory."
eerror "Please define an existing directory in your
TeX config file"
eerror
"${TEXMFCONFIGFILE:-/var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf} or create at least one of the
there specified directories"
die "TEXMFSITE variable did not contain an existing
directory"
fi
fi
fi
It is absolutely clear, and should work for arbitrarily configured TeX.
Later, I copied it (practically verbatim) to the media-gfx/asymptote
ebuild.
With the default Gentoo configuration of either teTeX or TeXlive, this
code always produces
/usr/share/texmf-site
There are a lot of packages which have this path hard-coded:
app-emacs/auctex
app-emacs/bbdb
app-text/passivetex
app-text/xetex
dev-tex/culmus-latex
dev-tex/currvita
dev-tex/dot2texi
dev-tex/envlab
dev-tex/europecv
dev-tex/feynmf
dev-tex/g-brief
dev-tex/glossaries
dev-tex/herm-pic
dev-tex/latex2html
dev-tex/latex-beamer
dev-tex/leaflet
dev-tex/listings
dev-tex/mh
dev-tex/oesch
dev-tex/pgf
dev-tex/svninfo
dev-tex/texmfind
dev-tex/translator
dev-tex/xcolor
dev-tex/xkeyval
dev-tex/xmltex
sci-visualization/gnuplot
So, probably, this code is an unneeded over-generalization, and should be
simply replaced by the hard-coded /usr/share/texmf-site in both maxima and
asymptote. Alternatively, if anybody thinks that this generalization can
be useful (in what case?), we could include this code as a function into
latex-package.eclass, and fix all the ebuilds listed above to use it. The
current inconsistent situation is not good.
I think the first solution is simpler (and I can do it myself). But if
somebody thinks this generalization to the case of an arbitrary TEXMFSITE
in TEXMFCONFIGFILE is useful, then let's do it properly.
Andrey
