On 2014-01-12 17.31, akhiezer wrote:
>> From: Magnus Larsson <k.magnus.lars...@tele2.se>
>> To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:59:07 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] No latex command? texlive-20130530
>>
>> If if run the Build script from texlive source 
>> ./Build
>>
>> I get:
>> inst/bin, inst/iclude, inst/lib, inst/texmf-dist, inst/texmf-var
>> inst/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>> inst/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu contains latex as a link to pdftex.
>>
>> If I add "inst/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" to PATH and execute latex I get
> 
> 
> Check: 'inst/': is that just a dir relative to the './Build' ?
"inst" is a directoy directly under the main level on the source tree
after unpacking the texlive-20130530 tar ball.

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>>
>> latex test.tex
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>>
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
>> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
>>
>> I do not have latex.fmt.
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> 
> Yeah, but if you're just './Build'ing and not installing, then ymmv as to 
> whether stuff will get located properly. And of course, "can't find" !== 
> "doesn't exist"  . Again, are there any 'latex.fmt' objects in the 
> filesystem:
> $ find -P / -iname 'latex.fmt' -ls
No there are no latex.fmt in the filesystem. I have tried to rebuild as
per http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/bjc97r/tips/latex-install.html but
not succeeded.

> 
> 
> Also what d'you get from:
> $ find -P / \( -iname 'kpsewhich' -o -iname 'kpathsea' \) -ls
Limiting search to home directory. It finds the "inst" in the source
tree from "./Build" and "./opt/texlive" from another local install attempt.
magnus@lfs ~> find -P . \( -iname 'kpsewhich' -o -iname 'kpathsea' \) -ls
55069541    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 magnus   user         4096 Jan  9 22:41
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/inst/include/kpathsea
54541108   80 -rwxr-xr-x   1 magnus   user        81728 Jan  9 22:41
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/inst/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/kpsewhich
54932648    4 drwxr-xr-x   6 magnus   user         4096 Apr 15  2013
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/texk/kpathsea
55463482   12 drwxr-xr-x   7 magnus   user        12288 Jan  9 22:41
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/Work/texk/kpathsea
55463509  432 -rwxr-xr-x   1 magnus   user       438638 Jan  9 22:27
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/Work/texk/kpathsea/kpsewhich
56505537    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 magnus   user         4096 Jan  9 22:33
./usr/source/texlive-20130530-source/Work/texk/web2c/web2c/kpathsea
54802178    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 magnus   user         4096 Jan  9 22:41
./opt/texlive/include/kpathsea
54411042   80 -rwxr-xr-x   1 magnus   user        81728 Jan  9 22:41
./opt/texlive/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/kpsewhich


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> rgds,
> akh
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