Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Message-ID:	<3BC5D13F.ECEE39F4@t-online.de>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:05:03 +0200
From:	520066587150-0001 AT t-online DOT de (Jerome BENOIT)
Reply-To:	JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr
X-Mailer:	Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language:	en
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	"Quoss, Clemens" <Clemens DOT Quoss AT Dresdner-Bank DOT com>
CC:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: texconfig rehash not working on Win98
References:	<9FD1B9BA394ED31181EC0008C7A4FFD2042C251F AT ffz00zaj DOT wwz1me DOT mail DOT dresdner DOT net>
X-Sender:	520066587150-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net

"Quoss, Clemens" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I installed tetex both on a WinNT and a Win98 machine running Cygwin.
> 
> I first installed the tetex texmf tree to /usr/share/texmf/, then
> re-installed
> the tetex package.
> 
> On both machines the only change I did was to change the TEXMFMAIN
> var in the texmf.cnf file to /usr/share/texmf/.
> 
> Then I did run 'texconfig confall', 'texconfig rehash' and 'texconfig init'
> on both machines. No obvious errors. But when I try to create the
> small2e.dvi file, I get the message 'latex.fmt not found' on the Win98
> machine. On WinNT, everything works fine.
> 
> But latex.fmt resides on both machines in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/.
> 
> So - my question is: Is there any difference between Win98 and WinNT
> with regard to tetex?

Of course NOT !

I am working under Win98, and allis fine:
> 
> One hint might be that on Win98 the ls-R file is not being re-created using
> 'texconfig rehash'. Whereas on WinNT mktexlsr prints two lines like
> 
> mktexlsr: file /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is being recreated...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> 
> on Win98 I only get the latter line and ls-R is still from Feb, 1st 2000.
> 

Try the following:
remove all `ls-R' files and rehash again.

Please let me know that is sufficient to fix your trouble.

Good TeXing,
Jerome BENOIT



> TIA
> 
> Bye
> 
> Clemens Quoss
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

-- 
  *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤    Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D.    *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤
                  Institute of Molecular Biology
               Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
             Winzerlaer Strasse 10, Jena 07745, Germany
  *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤    JGMBenoit AT wanadoo DOT fr    *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -