From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27520 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Willi Egger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: generating formats with newtexexec Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4450B2DF.3000905@boede.nl> References: <72F34EBD-F834-470D-81E4-B7F8C24A623B@uni-bonn.de> <44473E0E.6090409@wxs.nl> <966AB590-01B3-4DD8-B3D3-B1E41BCE751E@uni-bonn.de> <44474541.60903@wxs.nl> <955E5F8A-36FB-4F9C-B798-AA75ECDAAC57@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146139373 6398 80.91.229.2 (27 Apr 2006 12:02:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 27 14:02:52 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 1FZ5Co-0000IA-V8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A715B127D2; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:46 +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 27102-02-3; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1094B127C5; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D91C127C6 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:40 +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 27102-02-2 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.29]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AB5B127B7 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3RC2bwZ078512 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:02:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w.egger@boede.nl) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <955E5F8A-36FB-4F9C-B798-AA75ECDAAC57@uni-bonn.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:27520 Archived-At: 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 >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context@ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >