compilation of port 'latex' fails repeatedly

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Fredrik Carlén" <fredrik.carlen at telia.com> writes:

> I have tried to install latex on my new FreeBSD system, but it fails 
> miserably. All I do is type "$ make install distclean" in the latex 
> directory of the port tree (/usr/ports/print/latex). This usually does 
> the trick, right? 

Yes.

> $ uname -a: 
> FreeBSD al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 
> 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003     
> root at hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 

Maybe the port is broken on 5.x?  A few still are; after all, it's not
a production branch yet...

You might want to try the teTeX distribution (/usr/ports/print/tetex);
it's a very nice package.