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From: Mark Cox <coxhome@×××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem With TeX and opencm
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:26:09
Message-Id: 3D2B8077.25109BE@optushome.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem With TeX and opencm by Pierre-Henri Jondot
1 That worked like a charm.
2
3 All you have to do is put
4 export USE_VARTEXFONTS=1
5 export VARTEXFONTS=${WORKDIR}/fonts
6
7 and bingo it works.
8 I wonder who we should talk to to put this somewhere for other people who might
9 encounter the same problem.
10
11 Mark Cox
12
13 Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote:
14
15 > On 08 Jul 2002 12:47:02 +1000
16 > Mark Cox <coxhome@×××××××××××××.au> wrote:
17 >
18 > >
19 > > opencm (www.opencm.org) wants to generate ps documents from info files
20 > > when you tell it to compile. The problem is sandbox (I think it is this
21 > > that denies access to everything outside of the work dir..someone
22 > > correct if it isn't.) causes this to happen .
23 > >
24 > ...
25 > (sandbox violations due to pk's creation under /usr/share/texmf/fonts)
26 >
27 > > Does anyone know how to fix this ??
28 > >
29 > > Mark Cox
30 > >
31 >
32 > I had exactly the same problem with pari-gp. (Well the problem didn't show
33 > because I had already all the necessary pk's metafonted but I know it
34 > might...)
35 >
36 > A solution is, with tetex :
37 > set the env var USE_VARTEXFONTS to 1
38 > and the env var VARTEXFONTS to the directory where the fonts (metrics and
39 > bitmaps) will be generated. Something like /var/tmp/portage/opencm???/work
40 > perhaps will work... (Please correct me about the choice of this dir if I am
41 > wrong.)
42 >
43 > --
44 > Pierre-Henri Jondot <Pierre-Henri.Jondot@×××××××.fr>
45 > Page perso : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phj
46 > _______________________________________________
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem With TeX and opencm Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>