From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6237 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:39:08 -0400 (AST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <19357.1006542134@www18.gmx.net> Reply-To: "George N. White III" NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396775 8752 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christopher Creutzig , Original-To: Axel Zindler In-Reply-To: <19357.1006542134@www18.gmx.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6237 On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Axel Zindler wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 19:06 schrieb Christopher Creutzig: > > Axel Zindler 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 Bedford Institute of Oceanography