From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8232 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Petrou Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Q: problems finding syst-pln.tex Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:13:59 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020610121359.D7707@cs.cmu.edu> References: <20020602235317.L15701@cs.cmu.edu> <20020603074309.D393-100000@prudence.compuserve.de> <20020603134548.B27369@cs.cmu.edu> <20020604125620.A32564112@aisa.fi.muni.cz> Reply-To: dpetrou@ece.cmu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398651 25731 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: David Antos , NTG ConTeXt Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20020604125620.A32564112@aisa.fi.muni.cz>; from xantos@informatics.muni.cz on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:56:20PM +0200 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8232 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8232 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 > .) 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