can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 08:00:25PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> I have been using TeX for a while and I have never had to set up
> anthing like this :(  I had used MikTeX in winblow$ and TeTeX in linux
> distros and FreeBSD 5.3/FreeBSD6.2, and I had never had to mess with
> TDS.

I know, this is just a fix.
We are fortunate enough to
have the ports tree. That
is the way forward. But
some work is required for
this to happen.

> 
> This is what I always did, I tried to compile a tex project and it
> failed, I looked at which *.sty file was needed and I downloaded it
> from CTTAN or off another computer that had it and put it directly on
> the folder that I was working on.  This had always worked for me.

Apart from *sty files, there
are also fonts, and those
should live in correct directories
to be found.


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