[Slackbuilds-users] ffmpeg and tetex

Franzen slackbuilds at schoepfer.info
Sat Nov 5 13:14:19 UTC 2016


On 2016-11-05 13:37, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> Thanks for the reminder, Willy. I have 'su' aliased to 'su -' on my 
>> main
>> machine, but not on the VM where I was testing this. So maybe that 
>> error
>> message and/or README doesn't need to be changed. I'll leave it up to
>> the maintainer to decide.
> 
> It's already mentioned here
> https://slackbuilds.org/howto/
> 
> Note that for many builds, you will need to have a true login shell in
> order to have a correctly populated environment. Among other things,
> /usr/share/texmf/bin will not be in your PATH if you simply do "su" --
> therefore, you will need to either use "su -l" when switching to root,
> or source the /etc/profile script after doing "su", or perhaps 
> modifying
> /root/.bashrc to include necessary PATH elements.

True, and looking at the mail subject, do not forget that texlive/tetex 
is not required to build ffmpeg(it was required some versions earlier), 
documentation is still build without tex.
You just need to remove the texi2html-check from the Buildscript,
it's of no use by now.

Johannes


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