I did some more debugging:
In the file kpse.rb I entered an exception object after line 274, like this:

                    unless done then
                                formatpaths.each do |fp|
                            fpp = fp.sub(/#{engine}\/*$/o,'')
                                begin
                            FileUtils.makedirs(fpp)
                                rescue => excobj
                                    puts "#{excobj.class}:
#{excobj.message}" # false # maybe we don't have an path yet
                                end
                            if FileTest.directory?(fpp) &&
FileTest.writable?(fpp) then
                                # use this path

This generates the following output when running texexec --make --all

TeXExex | using tex engine pdftex
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory -
c:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdftex:c:
TeXExex | using tex format path ./pdftex
TeXExex | unable to make format due to lack of permissions
TeXExex | using mp engine mpost
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory -
c:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/:c:
TeXExex | using mps format path

Does this help in solving this problem?

Thanks,

Harrie

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Harrie Frericks wrote:
>
>> Problem 2 (not-solved)
>>>
>>>> I'm getting the infamous error: I can't find the format file
>>>> `cont-en.fmt'!
>>>>  I searched this list and tried texexec --make --all  This doesn't solve
>>>> the
>>>> problem. The problem is located in this part of the output:
>>>>
>>>>  did you run 'setuptex' in the tex path first?
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I did. It makes no difference.
>>
>
>
> the ./pdftex suggests that your env vars are not set up; on unix make sure
> that you run
>
> . setuptex
>
> (with period)
>
>
> Hans
>
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