LaTeX2html images.tex permission difficulties

goofyheadedpunk · 07-23-2004, 01:28 AM

I've recently begun to use LaTeX to typeset my mathematics work and hoped to use latex2html to convert the tex files for a website I'm putting togethter. It compiles and installs perfectly but upon running it I am told that

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Fatal (syswait): exec " ./images.tex" failed: Permission denied
 at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 3785

If I go nuts and chmod everything in images.tex directory 777 I get a long (very long) string of errors that at various places in the code of images.tex there were syntax errors. Also images.log is not created.

If I try to open up the html file that is created it looks very proffessional and orderly. It lacks only one vital thing. Equations.

I've found very many places with google that have information on this error, but no one ever has an answer.

I am trying to use latex2html-2002-2-1 but I have also tried latex2html-2002 with the same results. Does anyone have any idea why this error occurs and then how I could fix it?

goofyheadedpunk · 08-01-2004, 12:44 AM

Alright, having more time to look at why this doesn't work I noticed that in the configure output I get this

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checking for tex... no
checking for latex... no
Warning: Will not be able to generate images due to above failure.

Why I didn't look here first I can only attribute to being rushed. I apologize.

I assumed then that at configure time latex2html was looking for the binaries of both tex and latex. They are, for the sake of brevity, installed to /foo. /foo had only been a subset of directories in my PATH, so I decided to add it explicitly. Didn't help. Same error.

So, looking at the help file for configure, I decided to pass the location of both tex and latex at configure time. I usd this

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./configure --with-latex=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/latex --with-tex=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex

And it only half did what I expected. Next configure time tex was found, but latex was not. So I decided to make a sym link from /foo/latex to /usr/bin/latex, which I know for certain is in my PATH. That worked perfectly.

So, what did I learn here? Sym links are beautiful. I obviously don't know enough about adding things to my PATH. Read EVERYTHING before you ask someone else a question. The only hard part with that last lesson is that sometimes there's just not enough time to read everything. Oh well. I live, I learn, and thus get better at what I suck at.