From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/190 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olaf Weber Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt + teTeX 0.9-981012/Linux: SegFault Date: 19 Oct 1998 19:15:13 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87k91wtqvy.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391058 21920 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Tobias Burnus's message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:39:21 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:190 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:190 Tobias Burnus writes: > concerning TeX/eTeX of teTeX 0.9-981012 Olaf Weber > found the reason for this. > In texmf.cnf, there is: > max_strings.context = 55000 > max_strings = 15000 % max number of strings > using 'tex --ini --fmt=context cont-de' the first line is read, but > when calling tex \&context the second line is read, and since > cont-de needs 18053 strings, it segment faults. > If context is linked to tex (ln -s tex context) and tex is called > 'context' then it doesn't happen. Also, if the command line is tex --progname=context \&context file things will work. > (Since in teTeX cont-* is soft linked to pdftex, which presently > doesn't work, I used (e)TeX and failed.) > Olaf Weber will provide three patches to solve this bug/problem. See > teTeX-pretest mailing list. To be precise, I've made one patch available which should solve the problem of tex dumping core during the undump. While investigating the bug I've seen some other, halfway related, problems which will be addressed in web2c 7.3. I don't expect to release patches for those problems. -- Olaf Weber