[tlbuild] Can't locate mktexlsr.pl]

Tue Feb 16 05:25:40 CET 2016

Because pdftex is a tex interpreter and not latex, you need to use pdflatex for this file.

On 16 February 2016 12:43:25 GMT+09:00, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List <yugiohjcj-mailinglist at laposte.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:28:23 +0000
>Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:38:17PM +0100, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
>wrote:
>> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:34:47 +0000
>> > Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:22:17PM +0100, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
>wrote:
>> > > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:11:09 +0000
>> > > > Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > > > For texmf, I am also using the year "2015" in the path:
>> > > > > > ---
>> > > > > > tar xvf ${DIR}.tar.xz -C ${DESTDIR}/opt/texlive/2015
>--strip-components=1
>> > > > > > ---
>> > > > > > So, I still don't understand why "fmtutil-sys" is looking
>at an incorrect location to find the mktexlsr.pl file.
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > fmtutil-sys invokes fmtutil
>(texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl).
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > In that is the line
>> > > > > $TEXMFROOT = `kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT`;
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > If (as a user) I try that, it includes the year:
>> > > > > ken at deluxe ~ $kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
>> > > > > /opt/texlive/2015
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Do you get a different result ?
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ĸen
>> > > > 
>> > > > I get a different result:
>> > > > $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
>> > > > /opt/texlive
>> > > > 
>> > > > Indeed, the year "2015" is missing.
>> > > > But why? I don't know.
>> > > 
>> > > Have you had a previous install in /opt/texlive ?
>> > > 
>> > > ken at jtm1 ~ $which kpsewhich
>> > > /opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich
>> > > 
>> > > Are you running as a normal user, or are you using sudo, when you
>> > > run that kpsewhich command ?  I suspect perhaps where you set
>$PATH
>> > > there might be something odd.  At the moment my PATH is:
>> > > 
>> > > ken at jtm1 ~ $echo $PATH
>> > >
>/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kf5/bin:/opt/qt5/bin:/opt/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux
>> > > ken at jtm1 ~ $cat /etc/ld.so.conf
>> > > 
>> > > ĸen
>> > 
>> > No I don't have a previous install in /opt/texlive.
>> > It is a clean install.
>> > I removed all previous versions before installing this one.
>> > 
>> > $ which kpsewhich
>> > /opt/texlive/2015/bin/kpsewhich
>> > 
>> 
>> That is one place where you have not followed the BLFS instructions :
>> probably harmless, but it's not how we do it.  If you look at our
>> instructions, we use $TEXARCH.  The reason for that is because we
>> originally used the binaries to bootstrap building from source, and
>> doing that ensures the from-source programs overwrite the pre-built
>> ones.
>> 
>> > I am running kpsewhich as a normal user (without sudo).
>> > 
>> > I have a lot of things in my PATH environment variable:
>> > $ echo $PATH
>> >
>/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/games:/home/yugiohjcj/.cabal/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/fpc-2.4.2/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/eclipse-standard-luna-R-linux-gtk:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/eclipse-modeling-luna-R-linux-gtk:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/eclipse-modeling-juno-SR1-linux-gtk:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/kermeta-1.4.1-galileo-linux_x86:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/apache-ant-1.9.4/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/apps/maven/apache-maven-3.0-SNAPSHOT/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/jdk1.8.0_05/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/WTK2.5.2/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/bin:/home/yugiohjcj/mvn/bin:/opt/texlive/2015/bin/
>> > 
>> > But I can do this:
>> > $
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kf5/bin:/opt/qt5/bin:/opt/texlive/2015/bin
>> > $ echo $PATH
>> >
>/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/kf5/bin:/opt/qt5/bin:/opt/texlive/2015/bin
>> > $ which kpsewhich
>> > /opt/texlive/2015/bin/kpsewhich
>> > $ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
>> > /opt/texlive
>> > So, changing the PATH value does change the result.
>> 
>> I asked about the PATH because I wondered if kpsewhich was a remnant
>> of an older install, but apparently it is not.
>> > 
>> > $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf 
>> > /lib
>> > /usr/lib
>> > /usr/local/lib
>> > /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
>> > /usr/lib/seamonkey
>> > I have not edited the /etc/ld.so.conf file whereas on the LFS
>instructions [1], it is written to modify this file.
>> > 
>> > Is it the reason of this failure?
>> > 
>> 
>> Maybe.  You can try that change out for yourself and see if it fixes
>> it.  Unless we (BLFS) say that an instruction is optional (e.g.
>> building API docs for some programs, or explanations of optional
>> configure switches), we expect you to use all the instructions we
>> offer.
>> 
>> > [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/texlive.html
>> 
>> If you look at the libraries listed at the bottom of that page, ALL
>> of them are in /opt/texlive/2015/lib : I am surprised that kpathsea
>> runs at all if it cannot find its libraries, and similarly I would
>> expect problems with the lua parts of TeX.
>> 
>> But please answer Norbert's questions first, he is more likely to
>> get to the root of the problem (and that may still be in what we are
>> doing ;)
>> 
>> ĸen
>
>OK you found the problem.
>I have not completely followed the instructions because I thought this
>part was not important and I was totally wrong.
>
>I have edited /etc/ld.so.conf:
>$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf 
>/lib
>/usr/lib
>/usr/local/lib
>/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
>/usr/lib/seamonkey
>/opt/texlive/2015/lib
>
>Then, I have added the architecture to the path:
>[...]
>TEXARCH=`uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/'`
>[...]
>../configure                                        \
>    --prefix=/opt/texlive/2015                      \
>    --bindir=/opt/texlive/2015/bin/$TEXARCH         \
>[...]
>
>Now, that's what I have:
>$ which kpsewhich
>/opt/texlive/2015/bin/i386-linux/kpsewhich
>$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
>/opt/texlive/2015
>$ sudo mktexlsr
>mktexlsr: Updating /opt/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/ls-R... 
>mktexlsr: Updating /opt/texlive/2015/texmf-var/ls-R... 
>mktexlsr: Done.
>$ sudo fmtutil-sys --all
>[...]
>50 preloaded fonts
>0 words of pdf memory
>0 indirect objects
>No pages of output.
>Transcript written on dviluatex.log.
>fmtutil [INFO]: /opt/texlive/2015/texmf-var/web2c/luatex/dviluatex.fmt
>installed.
>fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 10
>fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuild formats: 46
>$ sudo mtxrun --generate
>[...]
>resolvers       | caching | 'files' compiled to
>'/opt/texlive/2015/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/1b4da46d1f340757f9984eae810b1464/trees/929f6dbc83f6d3b65dab91f1efa4aacb.luc'
>mtxrun          |
>mtxrun          | elapsed lua time: 1.935 seconds
>
>That's good: My error "Can't locate mktexlsr.pl" has gone.
>But after that, I am unable to compile a simple .tex file:
>$ pdftex test.tex 
>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015 - BLFS)
>(preloaded format=pdftex)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
>entering extended mode
>(./test.tex
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.1 \documentclass
>                  {article}
>? 
>
>Something wrong?

PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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