#8255: update SageTeX spkg to 2.2.3.p0 to fix spkg-check script
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Reporter: ddrake | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.4
Component: spkg-check | Keywords:
Author: Dan Drake | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by ddrake):
Replying to [comment:9 jhpalmieri]:
> spkg-check tests whether latex is present, and then it actually runs
pdflatex. I suppose that anyone who has latex will have pdflatex also,
but I think this should be fixed anyway:
In TeXLive (and teTeX), "latex" and "pdflatex" are just symlinks to pdftex
(or pdfetex), so it seems really unlikely that someone would have "latex"
but not "pdflatex". But your idea is correct; I'll change it.
By the way, is that a real example? Do you have a system with latex but
not pdflatex? I'm curious to know about it.
> Also, something is wrong with the shell script on Solaris but I don't
know what. If I log into t2.math.washington.edu and try installing with
SAGE_CHECK equal to 1, then I get the bad error message even though latex
is not found. Maybe this is because on many systems, 'which latex'
produces nothing if latex isn't found, but on t2, 'which latex' does this:
>
> $ which latex
> no latex in /usr/local/gcc-4.4.1-sun-linker/bin /usr/local/bin2 /usr/bin
/usr/ccs/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sfw/bin /bin /usr/sbin
This is a more serious problem. I'll look into it. Hopefully it gives a
useful return code or something.
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