Bug 1719

Summary: 09-13.src.rpm in stops in install-stage
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: oliver.hensel
Component: tetexAssignee: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 6.0CC: srevivo
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Description oliver.hensel 1999-03-24 00:19:10 UTC
instead of searching for texmf.cnf in /usr/share/texmf/web2c
in looks in /usr/lib/texmf/web2c
the problem seems to be with TEXMFMAIN not get properly set

------- Additional Comments From   03/23/99 19:43 -------
this seems to correct it:

--- tetex.spec~ Wed Mar 24 01:27:57 1999
+++ tetex.spec  Wed Mar 24 01:48:01 1999
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@
 patch -p3 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share < %{PATCH2}
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lib/texmf
 make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr \
-       texmf=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf
+       texmf=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf \
+       texmfmain=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf
 #perl -pi \
 #      -e "s|\.\./share/texmf|/usr/share/texmf|g;" \
 #      -e "s|$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lib/texmf|/var/lib/texmf|g;" \

------- Additional Comments From   03/24/99 19:18 -------
this seems to correct it:

--- tetex.spec~ Wed Mar 24 01:27:57 1999
+++ tetex.spec  Wed Mar 24 01:48:01 1999
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@
 patch -p3 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share < %{PATCH2}
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lib/texmf
 make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr \
-       texmf=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf
+       texmf=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf \
+       texmfmain=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/texmf
 #perl -pi \
 #      -e "s|\.\./share/texmf|/usr/share/texmf|g;" \
 #      -e "s|$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lib/texmf|/var/lib/texmf|g;" \

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-10 15:02:59 UTC
I included your change in tetex-1.0.1-2. It *almost* worked,
but left me with texmf.cnf line
	TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf
that I needed to change to
	TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf

(There were some other backward compatibility texmf.cnf problems
issues also so the package carries its own copy rather than installing
the generated file).