Re: new beta (again)

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-bielefeld.de>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 at 14:32:03+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
> >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 20:51:18+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> >>>>>Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to
> >>>>>get it working?
> >>>>
> >>>>in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>As mentioned before, that didn't help.
> >>
> >>can you try todays alpha release?
> >
> >
> >I did, it does not work. Each 'texexec --pdf' run fails with:
> >
> >Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'.
> >I can't find the format file `context.efmt'!
> >
> >No difference wether I set UseEnginePath to true or false in
> >texexec.ini.
> 
> locate texmf.cnf and check
> 
> TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$ENGINE,}
> MFBASES       = .;$TEXFORMATS
> MPMEMS        = .;$TEXFORMATS
> TEXPOOL       = .;$TEXFORMATS
> MFPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS
> MPPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS

My line was
TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c
The problem is not that I can't make tex find the formats. I think it is
because texexec tries to launch a command named 'metafun' which does
not exists, as the following lines of ouput of a texexec run suggest:

              metapost : try-mpgraph
                format : metafun
sh: metafun: not found

> are you running old binaries?

I have:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.3)
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.3)
 TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
ConTeXt  ver: 2005.04.19  fmt: 2005.4.28  int: english  mes: english

As you mention it, now I see that texexec complains:
systems         : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update
systems         : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs)

Can this really be the reason? I don't have administrative access to the
tex system here, so that would mean difficulties.

-- 
Eckhart