I use (as root: sudo) the following shell script to install the latest pdfetex. For me it works. It might be of use to you. #!/bin/sh echo "Installing Pdftex..." umask 022 unzip pdftex-1.30.4.zip cd pdftex-1.30.4 sh ./Build cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdftex `which pdftex` cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdftex.pool `kpsewhich pdftex.pool` cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex `which pdfetex` cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex.pool `kpsewhich pdfetex.pool` chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/teTeX chmod -R u+w /usr/local/teTeX chmod -R a+r /usr/local/teTeX umask 027 cd .. echo "Installing Pdftex done." exit yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer On Nov 28, 2005, at 21:51, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
I have once tried to set up TeX on gentoo, and found this to be the most complicated and least user-friendly distribution I have ever seen. There's a bunch of texmf-trees in all kinds of bizarre locations, and a symlink farm in /etc like you wouldn't believe, and there's not a shred of documentation to be seen anywhere. So they make everything as complex as possible, but the TeX binaries are simply dumped into /usr/bin, so the only way to update is via the emerge system. But enough of this rant: be careful to figure out what cnf file is a symlink and which one is "real." They have an entire web2c tree in /etc/conf.d/texmf, if memory serves right, and the cnf files are regenerated from texmf.d/00texmf.cnf or somesuch, so this is the file you need to modify. But in the end, you may find it's not worth the trouble: just unmerge tetex and install a vanilla teTeX system.
Best
Thomas
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/ share. Does anyone know what options to pass to pdftex's configure-script to match the setup on a Gentoo system (where stuff is stored in /etc/texmf and /var/lib/texmf)?
It would be simplest (and definately justified) to ask this to the Gentoo maintainer, because (s)he has apparently succeeded in setting that up (Gentoo's trees seem to bear only a passing resemblance to teTeX and would be more accurately called Gentoo-TeX).
Sadly, there's no separate pdfetex ebuild for Gentoo. If there was, I wouldn't have to mess with this :-).
My best guess: find the non-etc version of texmf.cnf (I'm fairly certain there is one), and attempt to pass the root of texmf tree that contains it as --datadir to the configure script.
Yes, there's one in /var/lib/texmf/web2c. The reason for this layout is to separate architecture-dependent files and non-architecture- dependent files. I can't say that the added complexity justify this separation.
nikolai
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