I'm stumied...

I'm stumied...

[Willi Egger]

Hi all,

I posted a mail a couple of hours ago. - I was wrong, because I found out,
that I had the format fiile generated on a wrong place ( I was mislead
because of the fact, that texexec moves the files to the correct position in
a Windows environment). - So this problem I solved myself.

Unfortunately I run into another struggle. After having created the
directories texmf-var/web2c as asked for by fmtutil, I have the pdfetex.efmt
format file generated and I have the ls-R database updated. - When starting
texexec I get the stumied-message caused by pdfetex. - Becaue I was not sure
how to handle the difference in TeX-tree setup asked by fmtutil and the
actually installed present tree, I tried also to insert the new format files
in the old tree (texmf/web2c). - Still I get the stumied-message after
starting texexec.

Is there anyone who can give me a hint how to tackle the problem?

Kind regards Willi

Re: I'm stumied...

[Mr. Wang Lei]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Willi Egger wrote:

> Unfortunately I run into another struggle. After having created the
> directories texmf-var/web2c as asked for by fmtutil, I have the pdfetex.efmt
> format file generated and I have the ls-R database updated. - When starting
> texexec I get the stumied-message caused by pdfetex. - Becaue I was not sure
> how to handle the difference in TeX-tree setup asked by fmtutil and the
> actually installed present tree, I tried also to insert the new format files
> in the old tree (texmf/web2c). - Still I get the stumied-message after
> starting texexec.

Have you set your TEXMFCNF correctly? 

Wang
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Re: I'm stumied...

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:17 PM 10/18/00 +0200, Willi Egger wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I posted a mail a couple of hours ago. - I was wrong, because I found out,
>that I had the format fiile generated on a wrong place ( I was mislead
>because of the fact, that texexec moves the files to the correct position in
>a Windows environment). - So this problem I solved myself.
>
>Unfortunately I run into another struggle. After having created the
>directories texmf-var/web2c as asked for by fmtutil, I have the pdfetex.efmt
>format file generated and I have the ls-R database updated. - When starting
>texexec I get the stumied-message caused by pdfetex. - Becaue I was not sure
>how to handle the difference in TeX-tree setup asked by fmtutil and the
>actually installed present tree, I tried also to insert the new format files
>in the old tree (texmf/web2c). - Still I get the stumied-message after
>starting texexec.
>
>Is there anyone who can give me a hint how to tackle the problem?

There is a difference between win and linux. On linux the formats may go to
the "texmf-var" area and to what extend this succeeds depends on all kind
of settings. Part of this is hard codes in fmtutil. 

Although a mixed win/linux setup is possible it's not trivial if you run
multiple trees too.  Here I manage thos with sets of env vars (needed
because I also run different pdftex's on win and linux which means that the
pool files don't match, and thereby the fmt not too). 

TEXMFCNF=C:/LOCAL/CONTEXT/TEXMF/WEB2C
TEXMFMAIN=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF
TEXMFLOCAL=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-LOCAL
VARTEXMF=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-VAR
HOMETEXMF=C:/LOCAL/CONTEXT/TEXMF
CONTEXTPATH=C:/LOCAL/CONTEXT
TEMPFONTPATH=C:/TEMP
TEXFORMATS=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C
MFBASES=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C
MPMEMS=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C
TEXPOOL=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C
MFPOOL=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C
MPPOOL=C:/LOCAL/TEX/TEXMF-MSWIN/WEB2C

this works well with 

texexec --make --alone en nl 

which means that texexec will not use fmtutil 

Actually, texexec can make formats without assistence, but on linux fmtutil
also takes care of some privelige settings. 

Hans
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