Re: Q: problems finding syst-pln.tex

[David Antos <xantos@informatics.muni.cz>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:45:48PM -0400, David Petrou wrote:
> > did you update your lsr?
> > 
> > 'texconfig rehash'
> > 
> > should do the trick.
> 
> That works!  Thanks!
> 
> I think the documenation should be updated to mention that this should
> be run.  Do the developers of ConTeXt read this mailing list?  If not,
> who should I contact to suggest this?

Hello,

I always push Hans to improve the documentation, nevertheless this
is a problem of kpathsea library and its manual. I'm also sure all the
ConTeXt developers read this list, so writing here is a suggestion:-).

Just read your (I guess) TeXlive documentation about finding files.

> Now, I have another problem.  When I try to do `texexec --make
> metafun' I get this:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> bash-2.04# texexec --make metafun
> 
>  TeXExec 2.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002
> 
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMP)
> ! I can't find file `metafun'.
> <*> metafun
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The only file that I have that looks like `metafun' is
> `metapost/context/metafun.mp'.  What am I doing wrong?

I think it's just the same problem. Do you have also about 15 mp-????.mp
files in the directory? Does kpsewhich find them? (Run kpsewhich
<name>.)

> Finally, could you answer whether I should have run `fmtutil --all'?

This command rebuilds all format files you have configured in
fmtutil.cnf. There is no need to rebuild e.g., plain or LaTeX, when you
updated just ConTeXt installation. When you install a new ConTeXt,
rebuild the ConTeXt formats cont-??.fmt or .efmt, an easy way is to
delete them and to say fmtutil --missing. texexec --make would do the
same. On the other hand, texexec is able to include custom
configurations, you must use the --alone switch to make it ignore the
fmtutil.cnf settings. The texexec script is also useful on systems that
have no own format utility. I was also confused in the beginning :-)

D.A.