[Gnumed-devel] Hints needed for tex configurations / options on Mac

[Jim Busser]

A number of tex-related packages are available for the Mac. While some are 
available independently of MacPorts, a coherent MacPorts solution is likely 
desirable. Among the MacPorts options, the best candidate appears to be

        texlive (which provides binaries)

which has as a dependency

        texlive_base

but the MacPorts packages are further complicated by offering "variants" 
(subpackage combinations or configurations variably depending on other 
packages) from which the person must choose. These are listed below. 
Suggestions?

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texlive
        http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/texlive/Portfile
offers 2:

        variant letter description {Set paper format to letter} {
            build   {
                system "texconfig-sys paper letter"
         }

        variant doc description {Build docs} {
            depends_lib-append  port:texlive_texmf-docs
        }

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texlive_base
        http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/texlive_base/Portfile
offers 5:

        variant no_x11 conflicts xaw motif xaw3d nextaw {
            depends_lib-delete port:xorg-libXp
            configure.args-append --without-x --without-pdfopen
            configure.args-delete  --x-includes=${prefix}/include \
                                   --x-libraries=${prefix}/lib
        }
        variant motif conflicts no_x11 xaw xaw3d nextaw description {Use Motif 
to build xdvi} {
             depends_lib-append lib:libXm:openmotif
             configure.args-append --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=motif
        }
        variant xaw conflicts no_x11 motif xaw3d nextaw description {Use Xaw to 
build xdvi} {
            depends_lib-append port:xorg-libXaw
            configure.args-append --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw
        }
        variant xaw3d conflicts no_x11 motif xaw nextaw description {Use Xaw3d 
to build xdvi} {
            depends_lib-append port:Xaw3d
            configure.args-append --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw3d
        }
        variant nextaw conflicts no_x11 motif xaw xaw3d description {Use neXtaw 
to build xdvi} {
            depends_lib-append port:neXtaw
            configure.args-append --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=neXtaw



-- Jim