texlive_base failed to build

[David Epstein]

Perry Lee-2 wrote:
> 
> On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:17 PM, David Epstein wrote:
>> In desperation, I downloaded MacTex (not via MacPorts), and the  
>> installation
>> seemed to go OK. But when I tried to use it, I got an error message  
>> that
>> /opt/local/bin/pdflatex didn't exist. I was surprised by this  
>> unexpected
>> interaction between MacPorts and MacTex. I then tried "port search  
>> pdflatex"
> 
> After installing MacTex, did you run pdflatex from a new shell or from  
> a preexisting one? If it's the latter case, bash may be using a hashed  
> location.  You can make it forget by typing `hash -r`.  As far as I  
> know, MacTex's pdflatex is located at /usr/texbin/pdflatex.
> 

Maybe I should reinstall MacTex. I have no texbin in /usr/. But this is
probably off-topic. Is there a user forum for MacTex? I didn't try running
pdflatex. I tried to typeset using TexShop, which I opened by clicking on
the TexShop icon. I use tcsh and not bash.
David
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