From: David Arnold <dwarnold45@cox.net>
Subject: texmfstart newbie
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:35:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10800A51-BD3A-44F1-BA15-CD5BF6633216@cox.net> (raw)
OK,
I've updated to the latest context via Gerben's i-installer on my mac
osx 10.4.6.
I have no idea what texmfstart is nor do I understand its purpose.
I imagine the first thing I have to do is configure, because it is
certainly not found on my system.
tmp $ which texmfstart
tmp $ texmfstart
-bash: texmfstart: command not found
Here is my path:
tmp $ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/opt/local/bin:/usr/
local/mysql/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
For example:
tmp $ texexec --version
TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006
tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
context : ver: 2006.06.23 20:39
cont-en : ver: 2006.06.23 20:39 fmt: 2006.6.27 mes:
english
cont-nl : ver: 2006.06.23 20:39 fmt: 2006.6.27 mes:
dutch
total run time : 3 seconds
warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead
tmp $ which texexec
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec
Which appears to be some sort of shell script.
tmp $ cat /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec
#!/bin/sh
test -f /bin/sh5 && test -z "$RUNNING_SH5" \
&& { UNAMES=`uname -s`; test "x$UNAMES" = xULTRIX; } 2>/dev/null \
&& { RUNNING_SH5=true; export RUNNING_SH5; exec /bin/sh5 $0 ${1
+"$@"}; }
unset RUNNING_SH5
test -f /bin/bsh && test -z "$RUNNING_BSH" \
&& { UNAMES=`uname -s`; test "x$UNAMES" = xAIX; } 2>/dev/null \
&& { RUNNING_BSH=true; export RUNNING_BSH; exec /bin/bsh $0 ${1
+"$@"}; }
unset RUNNING_BSH
export PATH
# hack around a bug in zsh:
test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"'
what=`echo $0 | sed 's@.*/@@'`
p=`kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts $what.pl`
{ test -n "$p" && test -f "$p"; } \
|| { echo "\`$what.pl' not found."; exit 1; }
perl "$p" ${1+"$@"}
Ruby is installed:
tmp $ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
tmp $ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
And here is the location of texmfstart:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/stubs/lib/texmfstart
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/stubs/lib/
texmfstart/base
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/stubs/lib/
texmfstart/base/kpse
Now for questions:
1. How do I configure my system to use texmstart?
2. What are some of the usual uses I should be employing of
texmfstart? How will it improve performance? How will it simplify my
work? Etc? I.e what are the advantages?
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-27 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-27 19:35 David Arnold [this message]
2006-06-27 21:07 ` gnwiii
2006-06-28 11:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-06-28 13:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-06-28 17:57 ` David Arnold
2006-06-28 18:24 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-06-28 21:46 ` Gerben Wierda
2006-06-28 21:56 ` David Arnold
2006-09-01 10:38 ` Patrick Gundlach
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