On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:51:28AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> writes: > > > I installed latex from TexLive DVD (2015) on NetBSD 7.0 amd64. > > > > xelatex from above package seems to have dependency on fontconfig.so.2, > > which doesn't seem to be available on NetBSD. > > For the texlive dvd to make sense as a binary distribution, it has to > specify an OS version and architecture depend only on the base system > provide everything else it needs
I get your point. I did ldd in bin directory of texlive installation and found nothing pointing to pkg. So looks like the distro is fine. I might have messed up my base. But not sure how. The only operation that touched the base was i386->amd64, but I believe it was alright. > > [ A correction: I realize while I write this, when I installed from DVD, I > > was having NetBSD i386, which I later changed to amd64 for no specific > > reason. But I do not know whether it relates with above issue. ] > > While you can run i386 binaries on amd64, you need the i386 libraries > too. Maybe you should install the amd64 version from texlive, because > for Free software, there is little motivation not to run native. I installed texlive amd64 now and the error is gone. Now I see ldd pointing the erstwhile missing library to /usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so.2 May be he library was there. I was (wrongly) searching in /usr/pkg/lib. And the library must be amd64, hence the i386 installation was complaining about it. But now I libfreetype.so.7 as unmet dependency. I checked, I seem to have i386 version of it. I am unsure how x11 libraries ended up being a mix of amd64 and i386. Will try a clean install of x11 sets. Mayuresh
