[tex-live] fmtutil and spaces in names on unix ...

[Jonathan Kew]

On 16 Apr 2008, at 12:02 pm, Norbert Preining wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> testing the new texlive I found something strange ...
> Aehmm, I never checked before, but installing on UNIX into
> 	/home/norbert/tl test/2008
> and then calling the (right) fmtutil-sys --all gives me:
> ...
> mv: cannot move `mf.log' to `/home/norbert/tl test/2008/texmf-var/ 
> web2c/metafont/mf.log': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot move `mf.base' to `/home/norbert/tl test/2008/texmf-var/ 
> web2c/metafont/mf.base': No such file or directory
>
>
> I have to CREATE .../web2c/metafont (and pdftex etc in advance!!!),  
> then
> it works.
>
> It seems that fmtutil somewhere on the way does not create  
> directories.
>
> Jonathan, could we have introduced this bug when we patched the  
> support
> for web2c/$engine/ ...


Very likely so. Try adding quotes around "$fulldestdir" at line 705  
in fmtutil.

JK