[OS X TeX] More otftotfm problems...

Stephen Moye stephenmoye at cox.net
Sat Mar 31 16:11:49 EDT 2007


On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 31 mars 07 à 20:02, Stephen Moye a écrit :
>
>> The problem is that otftotfm is creating the directory  
>> ~/.texlive2007/ and populating it with all its output -- except  
>> for the .map file which it leaves in the current directory.
>
> This directory ~/.texlive2007 is (I think) created by TeXLive for  
> storing auto-generated files, such as bitmap fonts in PK format,  
> metrics in TFM format, and so forth. That's more-or-less equivalent  
> to gwTeX's repository /var/tmp/texfonts.
>
> For TeXLive, from /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf:
>
> % TEXMFVAR, where texconfig stores variable runtime data.
> % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set.
> % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN:
> %   TEXMFVAR = $TEXMFMAIN
> % For using a separate tree:
> %   TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var  # teTeX 3.0 default
> TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texlive2007/texmf-var
>
> % TEXMFCONFIG, where texconfig stores configuration data.
> % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set.
> % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN:
> %   TEXMFCONFIG = $TEXMFMAIN
> % For using a separate tree:
> %   TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config  # teTeX 3.0 default
> % For using a separate tree:
> %   TEXMFCONFIG = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-config
> TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texlive2007/texmf-config
>
> And for gwTeX, from /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.cnf:
>
> % Where generated fonts may be written.  This tree is used when the  
> sources
> % were found in a system tree and either that tree wasn't writable,  
> or the
> % varfonts feature was enabled in MT_FEATURES in mktex.cnf.
> VARTEXFONTS = /var/tmp/texfonts
>
>> Interestingly, when I try to compile lcdf-typetools-2.61 from  
>> source, I get this message at the configure stage:
>>
>> configure: error:
>> =========================================
>>
>> I can't find the kpathsea library and/or header files. Tell me  
>> where to look
>> using the --with-kpathsea=PREFIX option (header files should be under
>> PREFIX/include/kpathsea, and library under PREFIX/lib), or disable  
>> support
>> using --without-kpathsea.
>>
>> =========================================
>>
>> What PREFIX? Does that mean '/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf- 
>> local' or '/Users/smoye/Library/texmf'? I assume that, under the  
>> texlive2007 regime that the former is preferable to the latter,  
>> especially for fonts. Yes?
>
> That's normal, the kpathsea headers and libraries aren't included  
> in TeXLive. They are included in gwTeX, though, at:
>
> /usr/local/gwTeX/include/kpathsea
> /usr/local/gwTeX/lib
>
> On my setup:
>
> Portable-de-Bruno:~ brunovoisin$ ls -l /usr/local/gwTeX/include/ 
> kpathsea
> total 480
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1235 Jan 17  2006 absolute.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  5182 Feb  2 10:29 c-auto.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  3017 Jan 17  2006 c-ctype.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1416 Jan 17  2006 c-dir.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   997 Jan 17  2006 c-errno.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2092 Jan 17  2006 c-fopen.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1234 Jan 17  2006 c-limits.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2569 Dec  9 19:45 c-memstr.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2022 Jan 17  2006 c-minmax.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1327 Jan 17  2006 c-namemx.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  3077 Jan 17  2006 c-pathch.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1424 Jan 17  2006 c-pathmx.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  9425 Jan 17  2006 c-proto.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2063 Jan 17  2006 c-stat.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  3088 Jan 17  2006 c-std.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1510 Jan 17  2006 c-unistd.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2417 Jan 17  2006 c-vararg.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1235 Jan 17  2006 cnf.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1399 Jan 17  2006 concatn.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  4158 Jan 17  2006 config.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1944 Jan 17  2006 db.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  3564 Jan 17  2006 debug.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1215 Jan 17  2006 default.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1851 Jan 17  2006 expand.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2602 Jan 17  2006 fn.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1205 Jan 17  2006 fontmap.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  5168 Jan 17  2006 getopt.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2759 Jan 17  2006 hash.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1524 Jan 17  2006 kpathsea.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  7936 Jan 17  2006 lib.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1170 Jan 17  2006 line.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2000 Jan 17  2006 magstep.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  8017 Feb  5 04:07 paths.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  4291 Jan 17  2006 pathsearch.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1345 Jan 17  2006 proginit.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2246 Jan 17  2006 progname.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1276 Jan 17  2006 readable.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   992 Jan 17  2006 remote.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2054 Jan 17  2006 str-list.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2013 Jan 17  2006 str-llist.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1180 Jan 17  2006 systypes.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  8016 Jan 17  2006 tex-file.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  3241 Jan 17  2006 tex-glyph.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1115 Jan 17  2006 tex-hush.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1626 Jan 17  2006 tex-make.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1152 Jan 17  2006 tilde.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1198 Jan 17  2006 truncate.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1740 Jan 17  2006 types.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1816 Jan 17  2006 variable.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1173 Jan 17  2006 xopendir.h
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1563 Jan 17  2006 xstat.h
> Portable-de-Bruno:~ brunovoisin$ ls -l /usr/local/gwTeX/lib
> total 1224
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  620588 Feb  5 04:12 libkpathsea.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     690 Feb  2 10:39 libkpathsea.la
>
> Bruno Voisin
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OK, I think I understand a little, but the question remains: Do I say  
--with-kpathsea=/usr/local/gwTeX/include/kpathsea ?

Thank you for so patiently answering my questions...

Stephen
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