Re: Q: problems finding syst-pln.tex

[David Petrou <dpetrou@ece.cmu.edu>]

thanks for the response.  my response to you is late because i had to
leave the country for an emergency.  now i'm back with more
questions.  :)

> > > 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?
> 
> 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.

like i said, i'm using tetex, not texlive.  in any case, it seems like
a very small addition to the context manual ("Run texconfig to rebuild
the file hash") would help users like me be able to use Context
more easily.  the way it is now, the context installation manual
doesn't even refer the reader to other documents like the kpsewhich
manual as installation reading prerequisites.  moreover, as far as i
can tell, it's not the intention of the context developers to have the
reader understand tex in detail in order to install context.

> > 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>.)

if it's the same problem, then why does it occur after i rebuilt the
hash?  and yes, my metapost/context directory has lots of mp-* files.
and yes, `kpsewhich metafun.mp' works fine:

bwv988 share/texmf# kpsewhich metafun.mp
/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp

i'd love any help here.  just to restate: i'm following the context
installation manual instructions to install a current context over my
tetex installation.  i've gotten as far as the `texexec --make
metafun'.  i've gotten all the steps before this command to work, but
this command fails as i've quoted above.

> > 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 :-)

thanks for the info.  what you just said would be great to see in the
installation manual.  the way it reads now, it's unclear whether this
time-consuming command should be run or not.

> D.A.

thanks again,
david