Re: generating formats with newtexexec

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Hi,

Of course I am unable to give an answer. Yet I would like to mention, 
that also in the windows environment it does not work as expected. I 
found the format files in a
separate directory not in the web2c path. Everything worked after moving 
the folder into the correct place.

Willi

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

>On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>  
>
>>hm, maybe some split problem
>>
>>what does kpsewhich -show-path=fmt report?
>>
>>i'll send you a patched kpsefast.rb module for testing
>>
>>Hans
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I'm really sorry I have to resurrect this old thread, but there is  
>something terribly, fundamentally wrong with format generation in  
>newtexexec. I just dlded the latest version and ran
>texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
>from within the directory where the format files should be written.  
>After completion, I double-checked, and I did not get a new version  
>or format file. I then searched my disk to see where format files had  
>been written. Here's the result:
>
>% locate cont-en.fmt
>/Users/tas/.:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/ 
>texmf-local/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/ 
>local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-dist/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/.:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/ 
>local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-local/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
>share/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-dist/web2c/ 
>pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/.:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c/:!!/ 
>usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-local/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/ 
>share/share/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-dist/ 
>web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
>
>This looks bizarre, and it is. What happened: instead of using the  
>path descriptors as handed to it by kpsewhich, newtexexec CREATES the  
>paths verbatim, so I now have a directory .:/Users/tas/texmf/ 
>web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf-local/web2c/:!!/usr/local/ 
>teTeX/share/share/texmf/web2c/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/share/texmf- 
>dist/web2c/pdfetex/ inside my Home directory and in other places of  
>the disk. I hope the description is clear...
>
>Best
>
>Thomas
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