On Oct 9, 2010, at 18:54, Faisal Moledina wrote: >>> Man files are ultimately located at /usr/texbin/man. >> >> .....Ah. Then /usr/texbin is not the bin directory, it's the prefix. So >> you'd really have /usr/texbin/bin being a symlink to wherever the TeX >> binaries are, and /usr/texbin/man (or perhaps more correctly >> /usr/texbin/share/man) for the manpages, /usr/texbin/info (or perhaps >> /usr/texbin/share/info) for the infopages. > > No, weirdly enough, /usr/texbin is where binaries are located, and > within that is a man dir. I've just emailed MacTeX to help clarify the > final path structure.
>> The user either needs /usr/texbin in their PATH, or they have it in >> /etc/paths.d; it's superfluous to do both. >> > > Ack, I do have it twice in my path as a result. This is messier than I > expected at first. MacTeX does recommend prepending PATH with > /usr/texbin if you use Fink or MacPorts, which makes sense to me. The > paths.d is the default approach for non-Fink or MacPorts MacTeX users. Ok. And you may not be the only user who has done that. So I guess we should accommodate either method. Whatever the desired structure is for the texbin directory, however odd it may be, we can duplicate it in the texlive ports. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
