X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:23:41 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'Fatal format file error; I'm stymied' [attn tex maintainer] Message-ID: <20070402142341.GB8629@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4610FDF1.9000206@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4610FDF1.9000206@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:58:25AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >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. That is certainly true. The FAQ isn't meant to provide stopgap fixes for arguably broken packages. cgf -- 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/