Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#26784 closed request (fixed)
Request: symlink binaries to a "texbin" directory for MacTeX support
| Reported by: | faisal.moledina@… | Owned by: | drkp (Dan Ports) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.9.1 |
| Keywords: | mactex | Cc: | drkp (Dan Ports), orez.org@…, faisal.moledina@… |
| Port: | texlive |
Description
I am in the process of creating a selector for MacTeX's TeX Distribution System Preference specific to MacPorts-TeXLive. Among other things, it makes a symlink /usr/texbin point to the location where texlive-related binaries exist. For MacPorts, this is at /opt/local/bin, where all MacPorts binaries are installed*. Given that MacTeX prepends /usr/texbin to $PATH, this method currently would make all MacPorts binaries prepended to $PATH unbeknownst to the user. I would like to request that for all texlive ports, binaries be symlinked to a "texbin" directory. That way, /usr/texbin could point to a texbin dir in /opt/local and only texlive-related binaries would take priority using $PATH, which is what a user would expect. When discussed over the mailing list, a suggested location is /opt/local/libexec/texlive/texbin . If possible, this could also be extended to man and info pages.
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-October/022227.html
- assuming /opt/local is where MacPorts is installed.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by faisal.moledina@…
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)
| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to dports@… |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
Will plan on doing this w/ the TL2010 update.
comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Merged to trunk in r73314.
After further discussion on the macports-users list and with MacTeX, it's not necessary to worry about man and info pages, just binaries.