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Subject: | RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem |
Date: | Fri, 20 May 2005 11:03:43 -0500 |
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"Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <jannekeATgnuDOTorg> wrote: > What config files did you have to remove? It would be nice to > check for those in the postinstall script. First (ref. messages 943, 789), I suspect now I was in error in saying that removing config files fixed the problem. In fact I nuked a whole '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c' directory; I suspect now that the operative change was removing '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/latex.fmt'. On the other hand, at some earlier point (ref. messages 789, 769), teTeX 3 had installed a set of tex-generated (therefore pdfetex- incompatible) format files in '$TEXMFVAR'. Maybe stale config files contributed to that; I couldn't really say. > I'd be interested to learn what exactly did not work, or what > fixed it. The story goes like this: * Upgrade from teTeX 2 to teTeX 3.0.0-[12]. Can't LaTeX anything. Observe that the old '$TEXMFMAIN/web2c/texmf.cnf' file is out of date (and that the new 'texmf.cnf.cygwin-*' is much improved). Replace the old with the new. Problem is gone. * Upgrade from teTex 3.0.0-[12] to teTeX 3.0.0-3. Can't LaTeX anything. On Jan Nieuwenhuizen's advice, remove '$TEXMFVAR/web2c/latex.fmt'; now the operative LaTeX format file is '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/latex.fmt'. Still can't LaTeX anything. After much threshing around, remove 'web2c/latex.fmt' (and all the rest of 'web2c', and all '*/config' directories) from '$TEXMFLOCAL' and reinstall teTeX. Problem is gone. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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