RE: New quirk on Apple Panther with make distcheck

[Marshall DeBerry]

Upon investigation, I didn't have a TeX package installed (although I
thought I did).  So, using the fink command (similar to yum install package)
I installed the following two TeX packages for the Mac:

fink install tetex-texmf
fink install tetex-base

(More info on the variety of TeX packages available for the Mac can be found
at http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex )

After a compile of about 1 and half hours, I've gotten a workable TeX
package, and did the make distclean again.  This time, I got two fails out
of the 63 tests:

Fail 1:
1c1
<      .  /2.00E+00/0000000003/4010000000000000/
---
>      .  /2.00E+00/0000000003/0000000000001040/
3c3
<      .  /6.00E+00/0000000007/4020000000000000/
---
>      .  /6.00E+00/0000000007/0000000000002040/
5c5
<      .  /1.00E+01/0000000011/4028000000000000/
---
>      .  /1.00E+01/0000000011/0000000000002840/
compare print out
FAILED
FAIL: command/print.sh

Fail 2:

installation error: Cannot find output initialization file.  Use `-vv' to
view search path.
warning: No output drivers are active.
fatal: Error initializing output drivers.
run data
FAILED
FAIL: bugs/html-frequency.sh

I think the second fail is understandable.  Any comments on the first fail?

BTW, I hope this is helpful.  I'm trying to approach this as from a casual
Mac user who has a basic system and would be interested in using an SPSS
type package for statistics. They pretty much know about getting a package,
installing it, and using it.  The TeX component is the first thing that's
given me pause, in that's it's a very big package.  Some people may balk at
having to install this just to be able to get output.  Just my two cents...
Marshall

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:37 PM
To: Marshall DeBerry
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: New quirk on Apple Panther with make distcheck

"Marshall DeBerry" <address@hidden> writes:

> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: line 599: tex: command not found

This would seem to suggest that you do not have TeX installed.
Do you?
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