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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.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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