What happened to teTeX?

[M. L. Dodson]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 22:06, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson at scms.utmb.edu> wrote
>   in <200506022150.34644.bdodson at scms.utmb.edu>:
>
> bd> On Thursday 02 June 2005 20:44, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> bd> > "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson at scms.utmb.edu> wrote
> bd> >   in <200506021333.06406.bdodson at scms.utmb.edu>:
> bd> >
> bd> > bd> [update.utmb.edu:bdodson:151] % latex doc.tex
> bd> > bd> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> bd> > bd> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> bd> > bd> fmtutil: format `latex' not available.
> bd> > bd> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> bd> > bd> [update.utmb.edu:bdodson:152] %
> bd> >
> bd> >  I would like to know what are displayed by the following commands:
> bd> >
> bd> >   % env | grep TEX
> bd> [update.utmb.edu:bdodson:101] % env | grep TEX
> bd> TEXINPUTS=.:~/tex4ht.dir/texmf/tex//:/usr/local/share/texmf/tex//
>
>  Your $TEXINPUTS is wrong and will break the teTeX build during
>  "make build/install".  $TEXINPUTS must include a trailing ":",
>  which indicates the default search path is also used.  Without it,
>  teTeX cannot find all of the necessary files.
>
>  You have to unset (or fix) $TEXINPUTS and rebuild/reinstall
>  all of the teTeX-related ports.

Hmmm... OK, I can do that.  A question though.  I've been using
teTeX on FreeBSD since the port entered the tree (2.0?).  Why
the change?  Is that something unique to the updated port or
a change in teTeX?
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