From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32476 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: engine should be pdftex Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:00:19 +0100 Message-ID: <459C2773.8040502@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167861862 10477 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 22:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 03 23:04:20 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2EDW-0005q6-Fs for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:04:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759742007C; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:01:30 +0100 (CET) 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 11121-10; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:01:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B4C20022; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:57:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3020920059 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:57:41 +0100 (CET) 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 11121-04-2 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:57:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398C020022 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:57:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 555 for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:00:19 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:32476 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------