Error installing print/latex

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Fri Jan 21 08:41:31 PST 2005


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> When doing a make on print/latex I get the following error:
> 
> ===>   Compressing manual pages for tex-3.14159_2
> ===>   Registering installation for tex-3.14159_2
> ===>   Returning to build of latex2e-2003.12_1
> ===>  Configuring for latex2e-2003.12_1
> ===>  Building for latex2e-2003.12_1
> ! I can't read tex.pool; bad path?
> *** Error code 1
> Stop in /usr/ports/print/latex.
> 
> I am sure this is some sort of path thing because tex.pool indeed exists
>  at /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/tex.pool; however, I have been unable
> to figure out what I need to change where to make it work.
> 
> I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE.  Any help you could provide would be most
> appreciated.  Thank you for your time!

Is there some particular reason why you must use print/latex ?
If there is not I would suggest that you use print/teTeX instead.
It is probably more up to date and is what most people use for
TeX-related stuff.



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