Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Axel Zindler]

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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Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Christopher Creutzig]

Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:

> 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 

 If you don't like those, you can always set $TEXMFCNF to a directory
containing your local texmf.cnf.

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Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Axel Zindler]

Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 22:39 schrieben Sie:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Axel Zindler wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 19:06 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:
> > > Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >  If you don't like those, you can always set $TEXMFCNF to a directory
> > > containing your local texmf.cnf.
> >
> > Doesn't work on my machine
> >
> > The file resides in /var/lib/texmf/web2c - so I must give:
> > TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c - correct?
>
> You need to 'export' the variable to make it available to the
> "children" of the current process.  What do you get from:
>
>   echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf
>   sh -c 'echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf'
>

Of course - once I read that somewhere, but forgot again :-(
Thanks very much!

So I've done now
TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c
export TEXMFCNF

and it worked.

Thanks for the tip how to check, whether a variable is exported or not.

Greetings

Axel Zindler

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Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[George N. White III]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Axel Zindler wrote:

> Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 19:06 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:
> > Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:
> > > 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
> >
> >  If you don't like those, you can always set $TEXMFCNF to a directory
> > containing your local texmf.cnf.
>
> Doesn't work on my machine
>
> The file resides in /var/lib/texmf/web2c - so I must give:
> TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c - correct?

You need to 'export' the variable to make it available to the
"children" of the current process.  What do you get from:

  echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf
  sh -c 'echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf'

> and starting then i.e. pdftex  -kpathsea-debug=255 -ini -fmt=cont-en cont-en
> brings me the same error.
>
> Whats wrong then?
>
> What don't you like -  the binaries? I'm using *ix just for a couple of
> months so I don't succed usually when trying to compile some packages...
> (maybe those ones where too difficult to set up)

Compiling packages on unix is about the same level of difficulty as
compiling tex documents.  Many things just work, but things can easily
go wrong do to different versions of some files or a configuration
error.

-- 
George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Axel Zindler]

Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 19:06 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:
> Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:
> > 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
>
>  If you don't like those, you can always set $TEXMFCNF to a directory
> containing your local texmf.cnf.

Doesn't work on my machine

The file resides in /var/lib/texmf/web2c - so I must give:
TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c - correct?

and starting then i.e. pdftex  -kpathsea-debug=255 -ini -fmt=cont-en cont-en
brings me the same error.

Whats wrong then?

What don't you like -  the binaries? I'm using *ix just for a couple of 
months so I don't succed usually when trying to compile some packages...
(maybe those ones where too difficult to set up)

Greetings

Axel

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Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Christopher Creutzig]

Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:

> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed.

> axel@asus:~> kpsewhich pdfetex.pool
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.pool

> Any hints how I can find what's wrong??

 Try 'kpsewhich -progname=context pdfetex.pool'.  If that doesn't
point to the correct path (it didn't for me), change texmf.cnf such
that TEXINPUTS.context, TEXINPUTS.cont-en and whatever other languages
you use include the correct directories.

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fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Axel Zindler]

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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