Re: generating formats with newtexexec

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

On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

>>
> hm, maybe some split problem
>
> what does kpsewhich -show-path=fmt report?
>
> i'll send you a patched kpsefast.rb module for testing
>
> Hans
>

I'm really sorry I have to resurrect this old thread, but there is  
something terribly, fundamentally wrong with format generation in  
newtexexec. I just dlded the latest version and ran
texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
from within the directory where the format files should be written.  
After completion, I double-checked, and I did not get a new version  
or format file. I then searched my disk to see where format files had  
been written. Here's the result:

% locate cont-en.fmt
/Users/tas/.:/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/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/.:/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/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/.:/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/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt

This looks bizarre, and it is. What happened: instead of using the  
path descriptors as handed to it by kpsewhich, newtexexec CREATES the  
paths verbatim, so I now have a directory .:/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/ inside my Home directory and in other places of  
the disk. I hope the description is clear...

Best

Thomas