engine should be pdftex

engine should be pdftex

[Peter Münster]

Hello,

"texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory "pdfetex" but I
think it should be "pdftex" now.

Cheers, Peter

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Re: engine should be pdftex

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> "texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory
> "pdfetex" but I think it should be "pdftex" now.

If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right.  But that
would break context with earlier pdftex's.  I've made a symlink from
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex to pdfetex and all is okay now.
TexLive2006 works without that hack, because it doesn't put the
context formats in an $engine subdirectory, which may cause other
problems.

See the thread "debian context updates" (Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:39:40 GMT).

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Re: engine should be pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>> "texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory
>> "pdfetex" but I think it should be "pdftex" now.
>>     
>
> If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right.  But that
> would break context with earlier pdftex's.  I've made a symlink from
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex to pdfetex and all is okay now.
> TexLive2006 works without that hack, because it doesn't put the
> context formats in an $engine subdirectory, which may cause other
> problems.
>
> See the thread "debian context updates" (Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:39:40 GMT).
>   
You need to delete all traces of pdfetex, pdfetex.pool, pdfetex, pdfetex.exe, pdfetex.dll, trhe pdfetex engine path, etc 

If texexec finds something pdfetex, it assumes pdfetex is there (unfortunately downward compatiility is not one of the strong points of tex distributions; they often assume wipe-out-install-new. 

texexec tries to cope with this as good as possible but we need to take older binary installations into account (else we could drop any reference to pdfetex) 

Hans 



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Re: engine should be pdftex

[Peter Münster]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:

> You need to delete all traces of pdfetex, pdfetex.pool, pdfetex,
> pdfetex.exe, pdfetex.dll, trhe pdfetex engine path, etc

Thanks, this helps.

Another question concerning formats: in TeX-live 2007, what should be the
right place to put the formats?
"texexec --make --all" puts them into texmf-config/web2c but all other
programs put them into texmf-var/web2c

Cheers, Peter

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Re: engine should be pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

� wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>   
>> You need to delete all traces of pdfetex, pdfetex.pool, pdfetex,
>> pdfetex.exe, pdfetex.dll, trhe pdfetex engine path, etc
>>     
>
> Thanks, this helps.
>
> Another question concerning formats: in TeX-live 2007, what should be the
> right place to put the formats?
> "texexec --make --all" puts them into texmf-config/web2c but all other
> programs put them into texmf-var/web2c
>
>   
hm, dunno, in tetex there was a rather long and weird list of paths, dunno how it is today

here i keep binaries and formats in paths like 

texmf-mswin/bin|web2c
texmf-linux/bin|web2c

esp since we can never be sure if binaries match and pool files and such may differ 

Hans 

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