X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4610FDF1.9000206@byu.net> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:58:25 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'Fatal format file error; I'm stymied' [attn tex maintainer] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Angelo Graziosi on 4/2/2007 3:07 AM: > > I think that these solutions: [snipped] > > should go in the FAQ. If you want stuff in the FAQ, then volunteer to become the FAQ maintainer (as it appears that no one currently wants to do that). But I think that is a bit of an overkill - this message: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00756.html shows an alternative fix is to update /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to properly make etex use its own binary. Either way (adding links or fixing fmtutil.cnf), I think it is the tex maintainer's job to fix this and release a new version of tex, rather than letting this topic recur on the list with the same solutions re-discovered every time, at which point a FAQ entry would be worthless. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEP3x84KuGfSFAYARAohUAKCGbjr/RARgRvno2nlZPYSm1o6CoQCgufkF IB69KyKr+J8CaxGDloIEtjw= =mwmV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/