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Subject: newbie problems trying to build cont-en with texexec
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I had tried running texexec --pdf present based on a simple context example I
saw on the pdftex mailing list.  I am running RedHat 5.2 with TeTeX 1.0-1 which
I rebuilt from the source RPM.

I got errors saying that cont-en.efmt did not exist, so I looked at the
readme.pdf and found that I might have to compile this using 'texexec --make
en' after fmtutil --edit to enable context for cont-en, which is disabled in
the teTeX RPM I got.

When I try 'texexec --make en' I get errors like this:

--------------------------------
...
line 171: inserting E-TEX code etex.src etexdefs.lib
! I can't find file `etex.src'.
l.183   \normalinput     etex.src 
                                  \relax
Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
l.183   \normalinput     etex.src 
                                  \relax
No pages of output.
Transcript written on cont-en.log.
fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed.

            executable : pdfetex
             format(s) : en

...
--------------------------------

etex.src and etesdefs.lib exist on my system under my /usr/share/texmf tree and
I ran texhash just in case, but no help.

I am very much a pdftex newbie, let alone new to Context, but any help would be
appreciated.

-- 
Tom Porter                                       txporter@mindspring.com
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