Re: generating formats with newtexexec

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>
> That is absolutely bizarre! :(
>
> So I also just downloaded the latest, just now, but I have no such
> problem (sorry). I have run
>
>   $ texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
>
> after unpacking
>
>    -rw-r--r--   1 taco taco 3484157 Apr 27 12:21 cont-tmf.zip
>
> to /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local (as root)
>
> That gave me the following (correct) files:
>
> TeXExec | tex engine path: /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex
> TeXExec | mps engine path: /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c
> TeXExec | texformat: 27/04/2006 13:24:57 >
> /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
> TeXExec | texformat: 27/04/2006 13:25:13 >
> /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt
> TeXExec | texformat: 27/04/2006 13:25:14 >
> /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt
> TeXExec | mpsformat: 27/04/2006 13:25:15 >
> /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/metafun.mem
> TeXExec | mpsformat: 22/08/2005 19:25:45 >
> /home/taco/.texmf-var/web2c/mpost.mem
> TeXExec | runtime: 37.386391
>
> and
>
>    $ texmfstart newtexexec --check
>
> now ends with:
>
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.1.2 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
> TeXExec | TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006
> TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.2 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | testing interface en
> TeXExec | pdfeTeX Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.27 00:58 fmt: 2006.4.27 int: english  
> mes:
> english
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | testing interface nl
> TeXExec | pdfeTeX Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.27 00:58 fmt: 2006.4.27 int: dutch  
> mes: dutch
>
>
> Cheers, taco

Yes, I really wish I knew what causes this error. I just checked on  
my laptop running linux (Fedora Core 5), and I get the proper output  
as well:

TeXExec | tex engine path: ./pdfetex
TeXExec | mps engine path: .
TeXExec | texformat: 27/04/06 15:14:41 > /usr/share/texmf-config/ 
web2c/pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt

Which as as it should be [however, newtexexec --check does not  
perform alll tests as it should]. On Mac OS X, I get at the end:

TeXExec | tex engine path: .:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/ 
teTeX/share//share/texmf-local/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share// 
share/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share//share/texmf-dist/web2c// 
pdfetex
TeXExec | mps engine path: .:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/ 
teTeX/share//share/texmf-local/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share// 
share/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share//share/texmf-dist/web2c

I guess that means that it creates, in the working directory, a  
directory named : and then the other diretories beneath it. What can  
cause this error? I;m running the same pdfetex version on both  
(3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213-2.2). Could be some config file, could  
be the different TDS setup on both systems, could be that OS X is  
case insensitive? Could other people check on their computers as  
well, that would be helpful.

Thomas