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Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2


Hmmm...that means the setup.hint file for tetex-20001208-4 is 
incomplete.  The maintainer needs to add 'libpng2' to the "requires:" line.

--Chuck

hin-tak.leung@idl-bt.com wrote:

> Just to confirm that with the latest tetex-20001208-4
> and the cygwin texmf-*-* packages I don't need to 
> set TEXMFMAIN anymore - although I still have
> TEXINPUTS and the font related variables set to
> "${HOME}/somewhere//:" for my CJK stuff.
> 
> Well-done!
> 
> BTW - pdftex in tetex-20001208-4 depends on the 
> new (10-days-old) libpng 1.0.2 . One needs to 
> upgrade that first - or run the 
> /etc/postinstall/*{tetex,texmf}*
> scripts again after ungrading libpng. Re-installing
> tetex will not re-run the postinstall script for 
> some unknown reason.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:janneke@gnu.org]
> Sent: 29 January 2002 13:46
> To: hin-tak.leung@idl-bt.com
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2
> 
> 
> hin-tak.leung@idl-bt.com writes:
> 
> 
>>My Texmf tree came from the stock teTeX 1.0.2
>>
> 
> Ok, so you're not using the texmf packages, and not using the latest
> tetex-beta...
> 
> 
>>Without setting TEXMFMAIN, it looks like latex is trying to look for
>>the texmf tree under //share rather than /usr/share .
>>
> 
> Could be.
> 
> 
>>"TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf" and my guess is that
>>$SELFAUTOPARENT is not set correctly, but this is the only file
>>
> 
> Could also be.
> 
> 
>>and I can see why the cygwin binaries shouldn't be able to do it
>>correctly...
>>
> 
> The latest (experimental) tetex-beta + texmf-base packages should get
> this right.  You may be looking at bugs that have been fixed, or you
> may have some other problem.  Hard to tell.
> 
> Jan.
> 
> 



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