Problem with japanese/tex-ptex going very slowly

Hiroki Sato hrs at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 9 18:34:51 UTC 2013


Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote
  in <201305091538.r49FcwMJ040564 at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>:

me>
me> 	> Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote
me> 	>   in <5187C454.2050504 at missouri.edu>:
me> 	>
me> 	> st> Many thanks for creating the texlive port!
me> 	> st>
me> 	> st> I am trying to install the recent japanese/tex-ptex port.  It seems to
me> 	> st> spend several hours doing:
me> 	> st>
me> 	> st> fmtutil: running `ptex -ini   -jobname=ptex -progname=ptex ptex.ini
me> 	> st> #ptex' ...
me> 	>
me> 	>
me> 	I have exactly the same problem, ptex won't finish.
me> 	I am using a newly installed FreeBSD 9.1 virtual machine.
me>
me> same here on ia64 -current.
me> However, killing the process and restarting helps.
me> I now have:
me>
me> $ pkg info -xo full
me> texlive-full-20120701: print/texlive-full

 Killing the process can lead to an incomplete installation.

 At this moment the best guess in my mind is some old TeXLive or teTeX
 installation in the home directory or somewhere prevented it from
 working, but I am not sure of the exact cause because of lack of
 information.

-- Hiroki
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