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Hi all,

sorry, that I have bothered you with this.

I've  found the solution yesterday myself after reading the write manual ;-)

--> pdftexman.pdf

The problem comes with the binary version of pdftex. These files have 
incompiled possible search paths for the file texmf.cnf. In SuSE 7.3 it 
resides in /var/lib/texmf/web2c and this path is not the search path
compiled 
inside the binaries.

With
pdftex  -kpathsea-debug=255 -ini -fmt=cont-en cont-en
one can find the problems a little bit more in detail.

Then one can create a link with
su - root
cd /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i386-linux-glibc
ln -s /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf texmf.cnf

to the relevant file.

and 

/usr/share/texmf/texexec --make 

works perfect

Greetings

Axel Zindler

Anyway Thanks Christoph.

Am Montag, 19. November 2001 21:30 schrieben Sie:
> Hi all,
>
> after downloading the file pdftex-linux-20010417.zip from the ftp-archiv I
> wanted to make the new formats.
> Instead I'm getting:
>
> axel@asus:~> texexec --make
>
>  TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001
>
> ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path?
> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini'
> failed. ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path?
> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini'
> failed. This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMP)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp
> Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-tool.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-spec.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-core.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-page.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-text.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-shap.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-butt.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-char.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-step.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-grph.mp) )
> Beginning to dump on file metafun.mem
>  (mem=metafun 2001.11.19)
> at most 2354 strings of total length 32081
> 32532 memory locations dumped; current usage is 10024&22419
> 1290 symbolic tokens
> Transcript written on metafun.log.
> ! I can't read pdfetex.pool; bad path?
>
>             TeX binary : pdfetex
>              format(s) : en nl metafun mptopdf
>
>
>         total run time : 4 seconds
> axel@asus:~> kpsewhich pdfetex.pool
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.pool
>
> the files pdftex.pool and pdfetex.pool had been updated.
>
> Any hints how I can find what's wrong??
>
> Thanks
>
> Axel Zindler

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