From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29911 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:52:35 -0400 Message-ID: <2B64A82A-3DB7-4B8E-A6D7-94C58F3FFC3E@princeton.edu> References: <810FFA20-941A-4143-B407-09C63982511B@cox.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154555654 6831 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 21:54:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 02 23:54:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8Of6-000749-Ph for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6E51FF0D; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12406-09-3; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170ED1FF04; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9031FF04 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12406-09-2 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 59ED91FEFB for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:52:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [70.17.41.64] by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J3E008CM4RMOF7G@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:52:35 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29911 Archived-At: On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: > >> All, >> >> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for >> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context >> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. >> >> If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. >> >> Thanks. > > Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice > a day... > > My own experience is: it's perfectly smooth, and if there were > problems, they weren't specific to the Mac. If you want the formats > to be copied into the system-wide tree (that's /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/ > texmf.local/web2c) instead of your personal ~/Library/texmf/ and are > using the new texmfstart method, you should invoke the script from a > root shell: > > sudo su > > texmfstart texexec --make --all > > Other than that, I can't think of anything special. > > Good luck > > Thomas After running sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all I have on the odd occasion had to copy the updated cont-en.fmt and = cont-nl.fmt from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex to /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c In any case, check the creation dates/times. When the latest version = was not in the latter, I got format mismatch errors and then nada. I am not sure why this happened, since I had not done anything other = than run Gerben=92s i-Installer. Alan