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Port details
lacheck Tool for finding common mistakes in LaTeX documents
1.30 textproc on this many watch lists=3 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.26_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: alven@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2002-02-08 16:55:12
Last Update: 2025-10-30 23:02:11
Commit Hash: 85b376e
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License: GPLv1+
WWW:
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/lacheck/
Description:
LaCheck is a general purpose consistency checker for LaTeX documents. It reads a LaTeX document and displays warning messages, if it finds bad sequences. LaCheck is designed to help find common mistakes in LaTeX documents, especially those made by beginners.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/lacheck
  2. share/man/man1/lacheck.1.gz
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/lacheck-1.30/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/lacheck-1.30/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/lacheck-1.30/GPLv1+
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • lacheck>0:textproc/lacheck
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • texlive-base
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/lacheck/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install textproc/lacheck
  • pkg install lacheck
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: lacheck
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1760049463 SHA256 (TeX/texlive-20250308-source.tar.xz) = fffdb1a3d143c177a4398a2229a40d6a88f18098e5f6dcfd57648c9f2417490f SIZE (TeX/texlive-20250308-source.tar.xz) = 111136556

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
lacheck
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.301.301.26_11.26_11.30n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.26_11.26_11.26_11.26_11.26_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.301.301.26_11.26_11.301.26_1-1.26_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.26_11.26_1-1.26_11.26_11.26_11.26_11.26_1
FreeBSD:15:latest1.301.30n/a1.26_1n/an/a1.26_11.26_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.26_11.26_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.301.30n/a-n/an/a--
This port has no dependencies.
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
textproc_lacheck
USES:
cpe tar:xz tex
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/2025/
  2. https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tug/historic/systems/texlive/2025/
  3. https://mirror.nju.edu.cn/tex-historic/systems/texlive/2025/
  4. https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/tex-historic-archive/systems/texlive/2025/
  5. https://pi.kwarc.info/historic/systems/texlive/2025/
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Number of commits found: 18

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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1.30
30 Oct 2025 23:02:11
commit hash: 85b376e8e4a157bdf5b44e8625c7f33d763e92d7commit hash: 85b376e8e4a157bdf5b44e8625c7f33d763e92d7commit hash: 85b376e8e4a157bdf5b44e8625c7f33d763e92d7commit hash: 85b376e8e4a157bdf5b44e8625c7f33d763e92d7 files touched by this commit
Älven (alven) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/lacheck: Update 1.26 => 1.30, take maintainership

Changelogs:
* https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/lacheck/ChangeLog

* Add LICENSE
* Add CPE info
* Use TEX_CTAN mirror for source from TeXLive distro

PR:		282121
Approved by:	yuri@ (Mentor)
1.26_1
14 Oct 2024 20:40:10
commit hash: c12c8b9897a93b0178b2f7465eba8805e7967668commit hash: c12c8b9897a93b0178b2f7465eba8805e7967668commit hash: c12c8b9897a93b0178b2f7465eba8805e7967668commit hash: c12c8b9897a93b0178b2f7465eba8805e7967668 files touched by this commit
Daniel Engberg (diizzy) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/lacheck: Refresh MASTER_SITES

Switch to https
1.26_1
09 Jan 2024 11:11:45
commit hash: 220062a3a1c35cc4deb0b363bdc27d09b492bf2ecommit hash: 220062a3a1c35cc4deb0b363bdc27d09b492bf2ecommit hash: 220062a3a1c35cc4deb0b363bdc27d09b492bf2ecommit hash: 220062a3a1c35cc4deb0b363bdc27d09b492bf2e files touched by this commit
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
MANPREFIX: eleminate its usage  and move man to share/man
1.26_1
20 Jul 2022 14:23:14
commit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9b files touched by this commit
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
textproc: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  "Choe, Cheng-Dae" whitekid
  *  -
  *  <glewis@FreeBSD.org>
  *  <koshy@india.hp.com>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca>
  *  Aaron Straup Cope
  *  Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>
  *  Ache
  *  Adam Herzog <adam@herzogdesigns.com>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
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1.26_1
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
1.26_1
11 Jan 2018 16:24:53
Revision:458754Original commit files touched by this commit
danfe search for other commits by this committer
Remove superfluous linefeeds.
1.26_1
12 Apr 2016 15:06:40
Revision:413137Original commit files touched by this commit
mat search for other commits by this committer
Unbreak.

PR:		208721
Submitted by:	tkato432 yahoo com
Sponsored by:	Absolight
1.26
09 Nov 2015 12:59:04
Revision:401096Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Mark a few ports BROKEN: unfetchable
1.26
11 Oct 2013 22:56:23
Revision:330106Original commit files touched by this commit
ak search for other commits by this committer
- Support STAGEDIR
- Reset maintainer, address bounces [1]:

550 5.1.1 <uwe.pierau@tu-clausthal.de>: Recipient address rejected:
undeliverable address:
host sphinx.rz.tu-clausthal.de[139.174.2.44] said: 550-5.1.1
<uwe.pierau@tu-clausthal.de>: Recipient address
rejected: undeliverable address:
host mail.tu-clausthal.de[139.174.2.1] said: 550 uwe.pierau@tu-clausthal.de
unknown user account (in reply to RCPT TO command)

PR:	ports/182316 [1]
Submitted by:	Uwe Pierau <noaddress@freebsd.de> [1]
1.26
20 Sep 2013 23:17:32
Revision:327773Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
textproc)
1.26
03 Jul 2011 14:40:25
Original commit files touched by this commit
ohauer search for other commits by this committer
-remove MD5
1.26
24 Jan 2006 03:10:24
Original commit files touched by this commit
edwin search for other commits by this committer
SHA256ify

Approved by: krion@
1.26
07 Nov 2005 14:17:02
Original commit files touched by this commit
garga search for other commits by this committer
- Fix MASTER_SITES

PR:             ports/88588
Submitted by:   maintainer
1.26
24 Mar 2004 23:14:14
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Add size data, approved by maintainers.
1.26
06 Feb 2004 13:12:53
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
1.26
06 Oct 2003 18:09:51
Original commit files touched by this commit
krion search for other commits by this committer
- Fix MASTER_SITES

PR:             57640
Submitted by:   maintainer
1.26
21 Feb 2003 13:42:50
Original commit files touched by this commit
knu search for other commits by this committer
De-pkg-comment.
08 Feb 2002 19:55:12
commit hash: fp1.24490@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.24490@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.24490@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.24490@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
yoichi search for other commits by this committer
Add LaCheck, a consistency checker for LaTeX documents.    

Number of commits found: 18