Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem With TeX and opencm

[Mark Cox <coxhome@optushome.com.au>]

That worked like a charm.

All you have to do is put
export USE_VARTEXFONTS=1
export VARTEXFONTS=${WORKDIR}/fonts

and bingo it works.
I wonder who we should talk to to put this somewhere for other people who might
encounter the same problem.

Mark Cox

Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote:

> On 08 Jul 2002 12:47:02 +1000
> Mark Cox <coxhome@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> > opencm (www.opencm.org) wants to generate ps documents from info files
> > when you tell it to compile. The problem is sandbox (I think it is this
> > that denies access to everything outside of the work dir..someone
> > correct if it isn't.) causes this to happen .
> >
> ...
> (sandbox violations due to pk's creation under /usr/share/texmf/fonts)
>
> > Does anyone know how to fix this ??
> >
> > Mark Cox
> >
>
> I had exactly the same problem with pari-gp. (Well the problem didn't show
> because I had already all the necessary pk's metafonted but I know it
> might...)
>
> A solution is, with tetex :
>   set the env var USE_VARTEXFONTS to 1
>   and the env var VARTEXFONTS to the directory where the fonts (metrics and
> bitmaps) will be generated. Something like /var/tmp/portage/opencm???/work
> perhaps will work... (Please correct me about the choice of this dir if I am
> wrong.)
>
> --
> Pierre-Henri Jondot <Pierre-Henri.Jondot@wanadoo.fr>
> Page perso : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phj
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