Bug 120319 – tetex-3.0_p1-r1 does not install latex

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Chantrain 2006-01-25 09:49:46 UTC]

After emerging tetex-3.0_p1-r1, I cannot find latex. It is not in /usr/bin.


emerge info:

Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-suspend2-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirr
h.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apm asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom crd crypt css cups dbus dvd dvdr dvdread dvi ed
 encode esd exif expat fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal id3 idn imlib ipod ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww
te mad maildir matroska mikmod mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg mplayer musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nls ntfs offensive ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib per
thon qt quicktime rar readline real samba scanner sdl spell sse2 ssl tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 visualization vorbis win32c
a wmf xfs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-01-25 11:10:48 UTC]

Could you try to re-emerge tetex.
If that does not help, then give us the list of files that are installed (the output at the end of the emerge).

[Comment 2 Diego Chantrain 2006-01-25 13:27:22 UTC]

Created attachment 78101 [details]
Files installed by the ebuild

Re-emerging does not seem to solve the problem. Here is the relevant part of the emerge log.

[Comment 3 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) 2006-01-26 02:07:00 UTC]

As a quick fix, make a symlink from /usr/bin/latex to /usr/bin/pdfetex, as this is what the ebuild should do anyway.

There is dark symlink magic going on in the tetex eclasses, I'll try to see what causes that.

[Comment 4 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-02-09 03:24:15 UTC]

Could you try the new -r2 and see if your problem is fixed in that?

[Comment 5 Diego Chantrain 2006-03-01 04:22:11 UTC]

I have latex now with the -r2. Works for me. Thanks.

[Comment 6 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-03-07 02:56:00 UTC]

I don't know what to think of this.
The modifications from -r1 to -r2 should not imho have had any effect on the latex binary being installed.

@nattfodd: What do you think of this?

[Comment 7 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) 2006-03-07 09:16:57 UTC]

Nothing more than in comment #3: there is symlink dark magic going on. Maybe you commited -r2 on a full moon day?

[Comment 8 Tobias Hahn 2006-04-12 04:19:14 UTC]

I works for me neither with -r2 nor with -r3. I agree on the dark magic.

[Comment 9 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-04-13 07:31:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I works for me neither with -r2 nor with -r3. I agree on the dark magic.

Do you mean that it works or that it does not work?

[Comment 10 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-04-13 11:58:15 UTC]

Could you with missing latex symlink please try running
texlinks --multiplatform
and report back if that works.

[Comment 11 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-04-13 13:20:09 UTC]

I have finally figured this one out!
It is texmf-update script which calls texconfig-sys init which in turn calls texlinks --multiplatform which creates the symlinks for latex and is relatives which all uses pdfetex.
That explains why it was fixed by upgrading from -r1 to -r2 and why so few users has been hit by this.
Upgradning from -r1 to -r2 fixes it, because it (re)introduces the call to texmf-update which accidently was removed (in an attempt to fix elatex, bug 98029).
The reason so few users has seen this bug is because if they at one time has had the symlink from pointing latex to pdfetex then it wont disappear when unemering/upgrading tetex (since the symlink was created by texmf-update after the qmerge phase, so portage doesn't record it). Hence only users which emerge the -r1 revision from a scratch system would be hit, not users upgrading to -r1.

I'm going to close it now since i'm convinced that it is fixed. If it's not, feel free to reopen.