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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!pratt From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Are the saved seconds worth the lost hours? (Was: Build complete LaTeX from source?) Date: 18 Sep 1995 00:48:34 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Lines: 180 Message-ID: <43ifl2$ckd@Radon.Stanford.EDU> References: <437eac$n68@mailnews.kub.nl> <439e1m$5oc@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunburn.stanford.edu In article <439e1m$5oc@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>, Marino Ladavac <ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> wrote: >Arnout Boer (infolab1@kub.nl) wrote: >: Has anybody any tips/docs/experience to share >: about how to build a very complete LaTeX distribution from source?? > >: Any help appreciated! > >Pretty trivial. Takes about 30 minutes on dx2-66. That is, TeX and >LaTeX, both from scratch. I started to write a whiny message about the above not being good enough, FreeBSD needs all this stuff ready-made if it is to be competitive with Linux. But then I looked in the packages section of http://www.freebsd.org and after failing to find categories for either text processing or document processing I finally found lots of tex stuff under "print". So don't waste time doing your own build of tex etc. when freebsd already has scripts that will do it for you. By way of having something more greppable than the 25 packages directories on www.freebsd.org (which you have to dive into one at a time manually and even then you don't get the whole picture at one time), I did <download ports.tar.gz from www.freebsd.org> gunzip ports.tar tar xf ports.tar cd pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports ls * Output appended. I see maxima there (great), but where are geomview, ephem, and cyberphone??? Now if only they were there I could start to imagine switching from Linux. ;) --- Vaughan Pratt ============================================ archivers: Makefile lha/ zip/ arc/ unarj/ zip.with_encryption/ gshar+gunshar/ unrar/ zoo/ ha/ unzip/ hpack.non-usa.only/ unzip.with_encryption/ audio: Makefile nas/ rsynth/ xcd/ gmod/ playmidi/ s3mod/ xcdplayer/ gsm/ radio/ sox/ xmcd/ maplay/ rplay/ tracker/ xmix/ benchmarks: Makefile bonnie/ iozone/ lmbench/ tcpblast/ cad: Makefile chipmunk/ magic/ acs/ irsim/ pcb/ comms: Makefile hylafax/ mgetty+sendfax/ seyon/ ecu/ kermit/ rzsz/ databases: Makefile exodus/ msql/ devel: Makefile dmake/ libmalloc/ noweb/ bcc/ gmake/ m4/ xxgdb/ bison/ libdlmalloc/ mprof/ editors: Makefile emacs/ mule/ uzap/ xvile/ axe/ joe/ tkHTML/ vile/ e93/ jove/ uemacs/ xemacs/ emulators: Makefile cpmtools/ mtools/ tkhfs/ wine/ cpmemu/ hfs/ pcemu/ vmsbackup/ games: Makefile tksol/ xevil/ xmine/ xpipeman/ acm/ xasteroids/ xgalaga/ xminesweep/ xrisk/ astrolog/ xbill/ xinvaders/ xmj/ xrobots/ golddig/ xboard/ xjewel/ xmris/ xsol/ jetpack/ xboing/ xkobo/ xonix/ xtetris/ nethack/ xchomp/ xlife/ xpacman/ xtic/ oneko/ xemeraldia/ xmille/ xpilot/ graphics: ImageMagick/ jpeg/ povray/ xfig/ xpm/ Makefile mpeg-lib/ tiff/ xfractint/ xv/ Mesa/ mpeg_play/ vcg/ xgrasp/ aero/ netpbm/ xanim/ xli/ dore/ pixmap/ xdl/ xpaint/ japanese: Canna/ kinput2-canna/ mule-canna/ Makefile kinput2-canna+wnn/ mule-wnn/ Wnn/ kinput2-wnn/ nethack/ gawk/ kon/ nkf/ grep/ kterm/ sed/ groff/ less/ tcl/ gxditview/ mh/ tk/ lang: Gofer/ expect/ guile-iii/ pTk/ scm/ Makefile forth/ icon/ pbasic/ smalltalk/ STk/ g77/ itcl/ perl5/ tcl/ Sather/ gcl/ logo/ python/ tcl74/ bwbasic/ gnat/ mit-scheme/ scheme48/ tclX/ elk/ guile-ii/ p2c/ schemetoc/ mail: Makefile metamail/ pgpsendmail/ popper/ elm/ mh/ pine/ procmail/ elm.with_pgp/ mpack/ popclient/ smail/ math: Makefile eispack/ gnuplot/ maxima/ xgraph/ blas/ fudgit/ hexcalc/ octave/ xlispstat/ calc/ gmp/ linpack/ oleo/ xspread/ net: Makefile fspclient/ mirror/ scotty/ wu-ftpd/ Mosaic/ gated/ moxftp/ slirp/ wwwish/ apache/ gn/ ncftp2/ sup/ xarchie/ archie/ gopher/ netscape/ tclDP/ xgopher/ cern_httpd/ imm/ nv/ tintin++/ yale-tftpd/ cern_linemode/ irc/ pcnfsd/ tkWWW/ ytalk/ chimera/ ircII/ pmf/ tkined/ zephyr/ dgd/ ivs/ rdist6/ vic/ zircon/ dgd-lpmud/ lynx/ samba/ wais/ news: Makefile inn/ nntp/ tin/ cnews/ nn/ rkive/ trn/ plan9: 9menu/ 9wm/ Xg/ rc/ 9term/ Makefile es/ sam/ print: Makefile dviselect/ makeindex/ tex/ xtexshell/ a2ps/ ghostscript/ mltex/ texinfo/ afm/ ghostview/ musixtex/ tr2latex/ dvi2xx/ latex/ psutils/ transfig/ dvips/ latex209/ rtf2latex/ xdvi/ russian: Makefile d1489/ pgp.language/ X.language/ netscape.language/ security: Makefile pgp/ pidentd/ tcp_wrapper/ shells: Makefile bash/ pdksh/ tcsh/ zsh/ sysutils: Makefile top/ xbatt/ xperfmon/ manck/ tua/ xdu/ xsysstats/ utils: Makefile colorls/ kp/ mshell/ team/ amanda/ git/ less/ recode/ tkinfo/ beav/ ical/ mc/ rman/ tkman/ chord/ ispell/ mmv/ screen/ x11: FWF/ emu/ tk/ xdtm/ xphoon/ Makefile fvwm/ tk4/ xearth/ xscreensaver/ XFree86/ g3view/ tvtwm/ xfed/ xsnow/ Xaw3d/ iv/ x3270/ xfm/ xview-clients/ blt/ olvwm/ xbuffy/ xgrab/ xview-config/ color_xterm/ piewm/ xcb/ xkeycaps/ xview-lib/ ctwm/ rxvt/ xcolors/ xloadimage/ emiclock/ sxpc/ xdaliclock/ xlockmore/