Re: generating formats with newtexexec

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> I'm having a slight problem with generating the formats when I use  
> newtexexec.
>
> texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
>
> I get the expected output without any errors, e.g.:
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2006.04.18 22:36  fmt: 2006.4.19  int: english  mes:  
> english
>
> Beginning to dump on file cont-en.fmt
> (format=cont-en 2006.4.19)
> 41222 strings of total length 690675
> 555192 memory locations dumped; current usage is 255&551843
> 38558 multiletter control sequences
> \font\nullfont=nullfont
> 0 words of font info for 0 preloaded fonts
> 232 hyphenation exceptions
> Hyphenation trie of length 98729 has 4367 ops out of 35111
>    117 for language 37
>    31 for language 36
>    13 for language 34
>    31 for language 33
>    26 for language 32
>    21 for language 31
>    29 for language 30
>    207 for language 29
>    220 for language 28
>    265 for language 27
>    127 for language 26
>    60 for language 25
>    80 for language 24
>    181 for language 23
>    224 for language 22
>    181 for language 21
>    71 for language 19
>    248 for language 18
>    248 for language 17
>    63 for language 16
>    63 for language 15
>    194 for language 14
>    194 for language 13
>    194 for language 12
>    19 for language 11
>    7 for language 10
>    7 for language 9
>    35 for language 8
>    35 for language 7
>    235 for language 6
>    235 for language 5
>    88 for language 4
>    88 for language 3
>    265 for language 2
>    265 for language 1
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on cont-en.log.
>
> But cont-en.fmt is never actually written to the disk. I searched  
> high and low, but the only cont-en.fmt is the "old" one, written on  
> Apr. 17; the same for cont-en.log. Generating the formats with  
> texexec --make --all works. Is there anything I'm missing?
>
>   
Don't you get a report saying something like:

TeXExec | tex engine path: c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex
TeXExec | mps engine path: c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c
TeXExec | texformat: 18/04/2006 23:38:03 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-cz.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 18/04/2006 23:37:38 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-de.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 20/04/2006 10:52:56 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 18/04/2006 23:37:51 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-fr.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 18/04/2006 23:38:30 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-it.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 20/04/2006 10:53:08 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 18/04/2006 23:38:16 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-ro.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 09/06/2005 02:41:25 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/latex.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 20/04/2006 10:53:09 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt
TeXExec | texformat: 09/06/2005 02:16:52 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/plain.fmt
TeXExec | mpsformat: 20/04/2006 10:53:11 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/metafun.mem
TeXExec | mpsformat: 09/06/2005 02:16:54 > c:/data/develop/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/plain.mem
TeXExec | runtime: 28.911

remove old instances in the web2c path! 

Hans 


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