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Subject: Re: Problems compiling web2c-6.1 on FreeBSD 2.0
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:06:55 (GMT)
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
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In-Reply-To: <9502261911.AA18589@ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Feb 27, 95 03:11:44 am
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> I am trying to recompile TeX, MetaFont and LaTex2e on a FreeBSD 2.0
> (950210 snapshot) system. I've never used TeX before, but I am quite
> experienced with UNIX and program development. The package is for
> someone else who has been using LaTeX for years under SunOS.
> Unfortunately, she does not understand the internal workings of TeX,
> and is thus unable to provide any assistance.
>
> The lib.tar.gz, web.tar.gz, web2c.tar.gz, dvips558.tar.gz and
> xdvik.tar.gz have all been unpacked locally (lib.tar.gz into
> /usr/local/lib/texmf and the others into a temporary working
> directory). I decided to leave all the default paths as-is and
> ran 'configure' and then 'make' from the web2c-6.1/ directory.
>
>
> The compilation fails while it is in the mf directory. When
> MetaFont runs for the first instance, I get the following output:
>
> > This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1) (INIMF)
...
> > ! I can't find file `cmbase.mf'.
> > <*> &./mf cmbase
> > dump
> > Please type another input file name:
...
> Now the 'make' moves into the tex/ directory. When TeX is invoked,
...
> I see the following messages:
>
> > This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (INITEX)
> > ! I can't find file `plain'.
> > <*> plain
> > \dump
> > Please type another input file name:
...
> I supply the name /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/plain/plain. Processing
> continues with this:
...
> > ! Font \tenrm=cmr10 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
> > <to be read again>
> > \font
I don't know if this is the _simplest_ way to solve your problems,
but I'm pretty sure it is the _best_ way.
Apply John Interrante's patch web2c.kpathsea-2.6.help.
[Actually this is not quite a patch.
Read the start of the file first.]
Now you will be using kpathsea-2.6, as in dvipsk-5.58f,
and you should be able to set the TEXINPUTS, etc, paths
in $TEXMF/web2c/texmf.cnf .
This means it is just a matter of setting these paths
to the actual places where these files are found on your system.