USE_TEX question

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 05/09/13 13:15, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 9 May 2013 18:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
>> So I have a port, math/sage, which now contains in Makefile the line
>> USE_TEX=        tetex
>>
>> I have intalled the texlive ports.  So now if I try to install math/sage, it
>> gives me error messages about CONFLICTS, which I think arise from the fact
>> that math/sage thinks that it has to first install tetex, and this conflict
>> with various texlive ports.
>>
>> But, math/sage is TEX agnostic.  It doesn't care whether it is tetex or
>> texlive that is installed.  All it really wants to know is if there is a
>> useable latex in PATH.
>>
>> It would be nice if there was a USE_TEX=yes option, or something like that,
>> which I could put into the math/sage port.
>
> USE_TEX=${TEX_DEFAULT} should work fine-- have you tried that?
>
> Chris

Ah, yes.  And you have to set TEX_DEFAULT in /etc/make.conf as well.