Re: regenerating formats

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Peter Münster wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> 	sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all
>> (which worked with the last ConTeXt installation)
>> and
>> 	sudo -H texmfstart texexec --make --all
>> failed with the error message
>> 	sudo: texmfstart: command not found.
>
>> Does it matter that I have the line
>> 	alias texmfstart='ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/
>> context/ruby/texmfstart.rb'
>> in my .profile rather than an executable version of the texmfstart
>> script in my $PATH?
>
> Hello Alan,
> I doubt, that an alias is inherited by the shell of sudo.
>
> Here is one way, how to set up the ruby scripts without touching the
> ConTeXt-texmf tree (extracted from my tetex.spec in
> http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/):
>
> mkdir -p /opt/teTeX/ruby-bin
> install texexec /opt/teTeX/ruby-bin
> ln -s ../texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb \
> 	/opt/teTeX/ruby-bin/texmfstart
> for i in `unzip -l cont-tmf.zip | \
> 	sed -nre 's_^.*scripts/context/ruby/([^/]+)\.rb$_\1_p'`; do
> 	if [ "$i" != texexec -a "$i" != texmfstart ]; then
> 		ln -s texexec /opt/teTeX/ruby-bin/$i
> 	fi
> done
>
> And these 2 lines in the file "texexec":
> #!/bin/sh
> exec texmfstart `basename $0`.rb "$@"
>
> Then, /opt/teTeX/ruby-bin must come before the normal teTeX-bin in  
> PATH.
>
> Cheers, Peter
>
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>

Thanks, Peter! This is very helpful and much appreciated.

Alan