a tentative portfile for texlive

Emmanuel Hainry milosh at macports.org
Fri Nov 9 23:10:46 PST 2007


Dear list,

	Using Edd Barrett's work for providing a texlive package for openbsd
and the porting guide he wrote
http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/texlive/, I made a protfile for
texlive for macports that I just committed to svn. This port works for
me but has not been thoroughly tested. latex and pdflatex, bibtex, xdvi,
and metapost worked for files I tried (I however had to put -tex=latex
for metapost to understand latex parts). 

	There are in fact two ports: texlive_texmf-minimal that provides a
texmf tree; and texlive that installs the binaries and finishes the
installation. There is also a bunch of patches for texlive to honor
DESTDIR (and in fact other things I don't know about) that were directly
checkouted (stolen?) from openBSD's cvs.

	What gets build and what doesn't: All the necessary for latex
	programs get build including mekaindex, dvipdf, ...
	However, the following parts don't
		psutils (since there is a port for it).
		xdvipdfmx (didnot compile because of freetype no longer
			supporting _FT_New_face_From_FSSpec, _FT_GetFile_Mac_.. and
			there is a port)
		xetex (in fact it gets built but the inixetex fails so I deleted
			the xetex inifiles + we have a port, but I'm afraid it will
			be conflicting)

	As I am not very knowledegeable on building latex, I put
openmaintainer as a maintainer. I hope someone more knowledgeable than
me will join or take the port (I vaguely remember reading that someone
was thinking about preparing a port of texlive on
irc://irc.freenode.org/#macports but did not find who it was).

	I hope people will test and improve this port.

Emmanuel


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