Re: regenerating formats

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> I downloaded the latest ConTeXt and tried regenerating the  
>> hyphenation
>> patterns
>> and formats (to get hyphenation with Thomas’ Greek module). The first
>> step
>> 	texmfstart ctxtools --pat
>> was successful. But
>> 	sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all
>> (which worked with the last ConTeXt installation)
>> and
>> 	sudo -H texmfstart texexec --make --all
>> failed with the error message
>> 	sudo: texmfstart: command not found.
>> [...]
>>
>> Does it matter that I have the line
>> 	alias texmfstart='ruby
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ 
>> texmfstart.rb'
>> in my .profile rather than an executable version of the texmfstart
>> script in my $PATH?
>
> Yes -- sudo doesn't know about shell aliases, it's trying to find an
> executable file named texmfstart in your PATH.
>
>> If it does, is there a way to set things so that texmfstart is
>> automatically available to the administrator and user
>> whenever a Terminal session is begun?
>
> Yes, by saving the following script as texmfstart in /usr/local/bin or
> wherever is appropriate:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec ruby
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
> "$@"
>
> (Everything from 'exec' to '"$@"' should be on a single line.)
>
> If you're using sudo while logged in as yourself (i.e., not root),  
> this
> texmfstart script can be anywhere in your PATH.
>
> Paul.
>
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> -- 
> Paul Hoffman <nkuitse@nkuitse.com>
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Many thanks, Paul! I appreciate your help.

Alan