From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: Help compile latex.fmt
30 Oct 1998 22:43:48 -0800
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To: Zhang Xiangsun <xszhang AT amath13 DOT amt DOT ac DOT cn>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com,
        lhall AT rfk DOT com, tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de

---Zhang Xiangsun <xszhang AT amath13 DOT amt DOT ac DOT cn> wrote:
>
> Yes, It has the same problems both in binary/text and not binary/text
> format
> I also try it in Sun-solaris 2.5, it works well. So it must be the
> compiling problem. How can I setting the compiler to overcome this
> problem?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> yang
> 
> Larry Hall wrote:
> > 
> > At 09:12 PM 10/27/98 +0800, you wrote:
> > >When I use cygwin32_b19 and egcs1.1 to compile tex: web2c from
> > >CTAN/web2c/
> > >configure is successful, so as compile the binaries program such as
> > >tex.exe,
> > >gftopk.exe, etc. but when it compile the latex.fmt, errors occured.
> > >
> > >The error maessages is as follows:
> > >
> > >This is TeX, version 3.14159(web2c 7.2) (INITEX)
> > >(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx)
> > >(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
> > >!Missing control sequence inserted
> > ><inserted text>
> > >               \inaccessible
> > >...
> > >l. 194 ...xists{:texsys.aux}{\gdef\@currdir{:}}{}}}

According to the FAQ filenames matching a dos device name such as the
aux in texsys.aux above will cause problems.  Change all of the
occurances of aux to xxx or something that isn't a dos device name and
it should take care of the problem.

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