long day, {04jun10}

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > The TeX in ports is outdated and abandoned upstream. Install TeXLive instead.
> 
> 	yup, there is a tkxmlive port in ports/textproc.  more to the
> 	point, i found a slew of texlive stuff hosts on google.
> 	

The textproc/tkxmlive port has nothing to do with TeXLive. 

Currently, the TeXLive distribution of TeX is not in ports. Probably because
it uses its own configuration script and package manager.

But TeXLive is not difficult to install. I've documented my installation on my
UNIX miscellanea page: 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/unix/misc.xhtml#updatingtexlivetoversion2009

If you want to use ports that depend on TeX but are not in TeXLive (like
e.g. auctex) you have to patch those ports' Makefiles before installing or
upgrading them. My diff file for print/auctex is shown below.

----- mak.diff for print/auctex -----
--- Makefile.orig	2009-07-31 15:55:10.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefile	2009-12-21 16:06:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 MAINTAINER=	hrs at FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Integrated environment for writing LaTeX using GNU Emacs
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
+#BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
+#RUN_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
 
 USE_GHOSTSCRIPT=yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 		MKTEXLSR=${MKTEXLSR}
 INFO=		auctex preview-latex
 
-TEXMFDIR=	share/texmf
-MKTEXLSR=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/mktexlsr
+TEXMFDIR=	texlive/2009/texmf
+MKTEXLSR=	${LOCALBASE}/texlive/2009/bin/amd64-freebsd/mktexlsr
 
 NOT_FOR_ARCHS=	ia64
----- mak.diff for print/auctex -----


Roland
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