[tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

[Martin Schröder]

2017-03-29 15:28 GMT+02:00 Muhammad Umair Sair <15030002 at lums.edu.pk>:
> "Once you have a tree including both all the support files (gigabytes of
> stuff) and your new binaries, then run, for instance, latex small2e; the
> latex.fmt file should be automatically built and you should end up with a
> small2e.dvi file that you can, for example, view with xdvi or convert with
> dvips. Similarly for pdflatex and all the other engines."

The step basically assumes you already have a working TeXLive
installation and then insert the new binaries into it.
Did you have that and did you do that?

> It says latex.fmt file should be automatically built. Is latex.fmt generated
> artifact of some previous step or we need to get it from some where?

It's generated automagically iff the system is set up correctly.

Best
   Martin