pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

[Peter Münster]

Hello,

I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the
following issue (on latest TeX-live):
with "TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}" in texmf.cnf and
pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to
texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only into texmf-config/web2c
A symbolic link from texmf-config/web2c/cont-en.fmt to pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
solves the problem.

Is this issue already known and is there perhaps a better solution?

Cheers, Peter

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Re: pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

[Hans Hagen]

� wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the
> following issue (on latest TeX-live):
> with "TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}" in texmf.cnf and
> pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to
> texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only into texmf-config/web2c
> A symbolic link from texmf-config/web2c/cont-en.fmt to pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
> solves the problem.
>
> Is this issue already known and is there perhaps a better solution?
>   
pdfetex is no longer valid, it's pdftex now (includes etex); so. remove any trace of pdfetex, take the latest texexec, adn regenerate the formats 

(in this respect 1.40 is not downward compatible with tex live) 

Hans 

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Re: pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

[Peter Münster]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> pdfetex is no longer valid, it's pdftex now (includes etex); so. remove
> any trace of pdfetex, take the latest texexec, adn regenerate the formats

Hello Hans,
this is exactly what I did: I removed bin/pdfetex and web2c/pdfetex.pool
and then "texexec --make --all" puts its format to
web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
It's texexec from ConTeXt-2006.10.27

> (in this respect 1.40 is not downward compatible with tex live) 

Do you mean TeX live 2005 or the development version (svn-head)?

Does "not downward compatible" mean, that there are other more serious
issues?

Cheers, Peter

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Re: pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format

[Hans Hagen]

� wrote:
>
> Does "not downward compatible" mean, that there are other more serious
> issues?
>   
each year downward compatibily has someho wbeen broken (changes in binaries, tds, font names; but by now texmfstart/texexec should catch such problems) 

Hans 
 

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