creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

Faisal Moledina faisal.moledina at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 12:14:29 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:21:53PM -0500, Faisal Moledina wrote:
>> I edited the relevant section of the MacTeX postflight script:
>> http://pastie.org/1290673 . It seems fine to me but if there are any
>> glaring typos in the ln -s lines referring to directories in
>> /opt/local, let me know soon. I'll work with Richard to figure out how
>> to test this on my machine (not really familiar with OS X packages and
>> postflight scripts).
>
> You should use /opt/local/libexec/texlive/texbin instead of
> /opt/local/libexec/texlive/binaries, as that's the one I made for that
> purpose.

That makes a lot more sense.

> And you probably want to symlink /opt/local/var/db/texmf and
> /opt/local/etc/texmf into AllTexmf too.

Sure thing. Thanks.

Faisal


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